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TIL by the time a kid is 13, advertisers will have gathered on average more than 72 million data points about them.

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ANG1n TIL Eric Carmen's (to me, Celine Dion's) "All by Myself" snagged its melody from Rachmaninoff's 'Adagio sostenuto', the second movement of his 'Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18'.
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egR6 TIL Rapper Busta Rhymes voiced Reptar from Rugrats
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kJ4AE TIL In the 1980s pharmaceutical giant Bayer discovered their blood clotting drug was tainted with the HIV virus. Instead of scrapping the drug and taking a loss they sold it to unknowinging countries in Asia and South America leading to thousands becoming infected.