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TIL that police in Australia spent over $1000 to track down a man who stole a $3.95 bag of Nobby's Nuts by hiding them in his pants

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m1vWR TIL that in 2015 the European Commission paid 360 000€ for a report to study how much piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted goods. The 300-page report concluded that piracy has no statistical effect on the sales and was quietly buried.
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