"15% of all (human) experience has been experienced by people who are alive right now" and "28% of the entirety of human experience has happened since (the current oldest living person's) birth. Link. Although humans have been around for a long time, there weren't very many until recently!
The CIA considered making a fake gay sex tape of Saddam Hussein to undermine him before the Iraq War. Link.
80% of Americans are opposed to using gene editing to increase intelligence. Just don't prohibit the other 20%! Link.
Scroll to the bottom of this article to see the legal document written up for a 5 year old immigrant to sign away her rights after being separated from her grandmother. I feel safer already.
"average minimum wage increase of $0.50 reduces the probability that men and women return to prison within 1 year by 2.8%... These reductions in returns to incarcerations are observed for the potentially revenue generating crime categories of property and drug crimes; prison reentry for violent crimes are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income." Link.
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