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Press Space to continue
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One country lied about a harvest and life expectancy dropped for the entire planet. In 1958 China's government took a share of every village's harvest to feed the cities, and the share was based on what the village reported growing. Villages reported almost double what they actually grew. So the state showed up and took its cut of the imaginary harvest, and that cut was nearly everything the village really had. The food that was supposed to feed farmers all winter left on trucks, because on…