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TIL that research on DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) has largely shown it to be ineffective, and in some cases it has increased the use of drugs at schools.

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6E1Jl TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.
8eLxZ TIL that the distance flew in the Berlin Airlift was almost the entire way from the Earth to the Sun, totalled over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km).
R595Q TIL that Mithradates VI invaded the Kingdom of Cappadocia three times, deposing the puppet ruler each time, and afterwards, the Romans put the puppet ruler back on each time.
W7o8B TIL Christiaan Huygens was one of the first astronomers to apply mathematical principles to the design of optics rather than trial and error, and his telescope could study Saturn's ring system. The Huygenian eyepiece he invented in the 17th century is still in use today