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TIL Gotye didn't monetize his music on YouTube, missing out in millions of dollars in revenue from just his "Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)" video on YouTube.

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0dpLR TIL that a Man found $7.5 Million in a Storage Unit he bought for just $500 from 'Storage Wars' star Dan Dotson
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yQbXM TIL an estimated 100,000 German Jewish military personnel served in the German Army during World War I, of whom 12,000 were killed in action, and that later on Nazis tried to suppress the Jewish contribution and even tried to blame them for Germany's defeat
5bnk TIL that the music used in the “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy advertisement was pirated
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