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TIL: Despite piracy, there are more musicians than before and they’re making more money than ever.

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woy0M TIL: That Marilyn Manson's 1994 debut single "Get Your Gunn" contains an audio sample of R. Budd Dwyer's televised suicide from 1987. The bridge of the song contains audio from the press conference, including the sound of the gunshot that killed him.
mxNMv TIL that a prominent slavery apologist in the antebellum South argued that slavery was so wonderful it should be extended to whites
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