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TIL According to a New York Times article from 1996, Lisa Simpson from 'The Simpsons' was responsible for an increase in young people, especially young women, playing the saxophone

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ANOR4 TIL that EU citizen can demand a copy of all personal data that companies hold about them. However, most Android and iPhone apps completely ignore this right, a study has found.
W7QO4 TIL the end of 1983 broadcast of the TV movie "Adam", about the murder of Adam Walsh featured a photo of future rapper Bizzy Bone among photos missing children. A babysister recognized said photo and helped reunite him with his mother, having been abducted by his stepfather at the age of 4.
QJX1M TIL that in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where an undergraduate student was humiliated and subjected to "brutalizing psychological experiments". The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
5YmkR TIL The youngest Nike sponsored athlete in the world is 11 year old girl who is surfer and skateboarder Sky Brown
KOXj6 TIL the odds that we’re the only advanced species in the galaxy are one in 60 billion.