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TIL In 2006, a 16 year old won an iMac, 10 iPods, a $10,000 iTunes gift card, a scholarship in his name at the Juilliard School, and a personal phone call from Steve Jobs upon purchasing Apples 1 billionth song from the iTunes Store.

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