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TIL that Bajau people live in the middle of the sea, rarely go on land, have no nationality, no fixed abode, no money and they go spearfishing without scuba gear. Not even oxygen tanks.

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0wl85 TIL that the Judge Rotenberg Center, a SPED (Special-needs Education) School in Massachusetts, has been, and still is, using electroshock devices and other violent means to “discipline” misbehaving students.
0d8PA TIL the blazon of the European flag describes it thus: On an azure field a circle of twelve golden mullets, their points not touching.
8n7b TIL in 1956, a magician was performing the “cut a person in half” trick using his wife for a televised performance. Immediately after she was divided, the host ended the show. People were horrified, thinking she had been killed, but time had just run out on the broadcast.
Bgvx TIL That Unpaid Internships Are Illegal In The UK Because “they don’t comply with National Minimum Wage legislation”
M7OEW TIL Alaska uses military artillery guns for avalanche control