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TIL there is an 8 year old making over $1.3 million per year from his YouTube channel. His parents are putting the money into a savings account for him rather than spending the money.

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x6O0 TIL after Beethoven heard Mauro Giuliani play the guitar, he commented that the instrument was “a miniature orchestra in itself”.
e0nJ TIL that director Lars Von Trier had to hire a “penis double” for William Dafoe’s nude scenes in the film “Anti-Christ” because Dafoe’s genitalia is so large that “everybody got very confused when they saw it.”
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