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TIL that in the USA, only 53% of Generation Z-ers (people born from 1997 onwards) identify as sports fans, compared to 63% of all adults and 69% of millennials. Generation Z-ers are half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly, and twice as likely to never watch

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