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TIL Kim Dotcom, founder of the controversial Megaupload, was once the world’s top-ranked Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 player. Before his 2012 arrest in New Zealand, he achieved the highest cumulative score in free-for-all mode out of over 15 million players worldwide.

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