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Fool-Aid parody ad from Mad magazine

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In 1978, over 900 people at Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in Guyana committed suicide by drinking Flavor Aid with cyanide added to it. This parody ad from a 1961 issue of Mad magazine is an uncanny harbinger of the tragedy. Note that the letter is addressed to “Jim.”

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