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TIL Florida statute mandates a free education in any trade apprenticeship.

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RRwQ TIL that one of the leading lights of the Gun Control movement had to withdraw his work from publication and had a prestigious national history award rescinded due to false, unethical and fraudulent research
d8KvK TIL That cats were demonized in Europe during the Middle Ages. Many were killed off in an attempt to ward off evil, an action which ironically helped spread the plague.
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