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TIL: Saudi Arabia beheaded a man for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ in 2012

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gMeVA TIL aquariums aren't allowed to pay to get animals from other aquariums as it encourages poaching. So there is a barter system in place where they swap animals. A New England aquarium traded a dozen penguins for 800 mackerel and their basic unit of trade is the jellyfish
eOjJ TIL: Netflix employs a team of “taggers” who are paid to watch Netflix and tag the content.
6PXJ TIL babies can dream from day one (and possibly even before birth)
yVjpw TIL some 7,000 refugees from the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) ended up in Nazi concentration camps, with tens of thousands more were conscripted into forced labor.
VdGB TIL in 1968 the Beatles formed Apple Corps Ltd (informally known as Apple). In 1981 a suit was settled with Apple Computer with the payment of $80,000 to Apple Corps. As a condition of the settlement, Apple Computer agreed to stay out of the music business.