The Bajau are a remarkable fish people that can hold their breath underwater for over ten minutes in order to spear food thanks to a genetic anomaly called the "sea nomad gene." The Bajau people of Southeast Asia evolved larger spleens to enable them to store more oxygen in their blood during fre
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