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The tiny island-nation of Tuvalu, located somewhere between Australia and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, receives a yearly payment of almost $4 million for doing nothing at all.

The reason? This is the money that the Tuvalu government receives from royalties from the country's domain name, .tv!

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