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TIL no digital music service is generating a profit, mainly due to exorbitant US royalty rates

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rRQ1w TIL legendary R&B/soul singer Barry White was jailed for 4 months at age 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires. While in jail, he heard Elvis Presley singing “Now Or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.
YpMAA TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.
b6gm4 TIL that Orchidometer is a medical instrument used to measure the volume of the testicles.
J11nm TIL that Michael Jordan had to put away his cigar in certain interviews in the last dance was because his mom saw and got mad at him.
WnkY TIL many German POWs captured by the Allies in WW2 were so horrified by footage of the Holocaust that they burned their uniforms and called on Germany to surrender, and even volunteered to join the fight against the Axis.