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TIL on several late 60's recordings, prominent jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman used his 10-year-old son to play drums, though he could have employed high-profile adult jazz drummers. He prized the child's joyful child musical curiosity over a more technically skilled adult

8agdP TIL of the very mysterious death of Edgar Allen Poe
ZoP4 TIL once America Online Instant Messenger (AIM) held 52% market share. By June 2011, that had collapsed to only 0.73%.
JYax4 TIL you are more likely to get bit by a Chihuahua than a pit bull.
rRnr4 TIL the last US Civil War widow died in 2008.
JBVQ TIL that almost every successful pop song in the last 20 years was written by one man, Max Martin. He has a net worth of $250,000,000.