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TIL a California man was stabbed to death by a rooster at an illegal cockfight he was attending.

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GYbl5 TIL in 2020 the Marshall Islands, a country with about 60,000 inhabitants, had 3,683 ship registrations. This was due to MI's status as a flag of convenience - a country with advantageous conditions for registering ships there instead of the owner's country.
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