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TIL that that a religion called "the Coconut Religion" was founded in 1963 in Vietnam that advocated subsisting solely off of coconuts and coconut milk, with a "Coconut Kingdom" on an islet of the Mekong River, and referred to its leader and founder as "His Coconutship".

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