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TIL “Scared Straight” interventions are ineffective and may in fact increase delinquency relative to no treatment at all

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kOxZe TIL that the steel used in MRI machines, geiger counters and other radiation detecting gear is primarily sourced from German WWI battleships, scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919 because the steel was made before nuclear bombs were detonated, thus contaminating the air with radionuclides in 1945.
MbMW TIL 300 million years ago in north america there was a poisonous millipede the size of a car, called The Arthropleura.
Xl6P TIL that caffeine, a stimulant, has actually been shown to calm down people with ADHD and help them concentrate.
d9G9 TIL that the trend of baggy shorts in the NBA was started by Michael Jordan because he wanted to wear his UNC shorts under his Bulls shorts.