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TIL about pacu jawi, a traditional bull race in Sumatra. In the race, a jockey stands on a wooden plough loosely tied to a pair of bulls and holds them by their tails while the bulls cover about 60-250 metres (200-820 ft) of muddy track in a rice field

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