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TIL in 1994 Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, former members of band The KLF, recorded a video of themselves burning £1 million. In 1995, the pair released a video of the burning titled "K Foundation Burn a Million Quid" and then promptly went on hiatus, returning in 2017.

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