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TIL a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in America

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MeA5A TIL that during WW2 German prisoners of Wars in Canada were so well treated that they didn't want to leave the country when released. Thousands of them eventually stayed or came back to Canada with one saying that the time in Canadian prison was "the best thing that happened to me."
M71Wm TIL Canadian cable-TV music network MuchMusic refused to air Warrant's "Cherry Pie" music video on the grounds that it was "offensively sexist".
4knlb TIL that before the invention of erasers, writers and draftsmen used to use bread crumbs to erase mistakes.
VMV5G TIL on the Friday that Fight Club was released theatrically in the US, Rosie O'Donnell revealed on her TV show that she had already seen it while urging her viewers not to watch it and spoiling the ending.
W7NKB TIL that wizards who ride dragons, control the weather, and go to a secret wizard school are a thing in Romanian folklore