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TIL: There are no mosquitoes in Iceland

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X0oak TIL that Joe Jackson would hit his kids with belts, cords of electric kettles or anything he could reach. Michael Jackson recalled that he was too fast for his father to catch most of the time, but when he did "...it was bad. He would throw you and hit you as hard as he can"
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