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TIL only 5% of average musicians' income comes from music sales, and only 12% of overall music industry income goes to the performers

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vo9B TIL ‘This Land is Your Land’ by Woody Guthrie was written as a counter to 'God Bless America’. There was even socialist style verse that has been removed from the modern version
6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.
XEwRr TIL, a dish made of seaweed called laverbread is a part of the traditional Welsh breakfast.
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