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TIL When "Foolish Beat" by Debbie Gibson went #1 in 1988 she became the youngest artist (at 17) ever to have written, produced, and performed a Billboard number-one single, as entered in the 1988 Guinness Book of World Records, a record she continues to hold 32 years later...

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