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TIL The U.S. Department of Education prohibits schools from spending money on D.A.R.E. because studies have proven it to be a completely ineffective program.

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9wQa7 TIL Nebraska State Troopers cars are equipped with teddy bears to have available for children during times of accident or trauma.
jDln TIL that Amazon was initially named ‘Cadabra’, this was only changed when a lawyer misheard the name as 'cadaver’.
x6ekk TIL: The little (or big) farts that proceed a poop are called the Anal Sampling Reflex.
AN0V7 TIL that multiple sclerosis is more common in people who live farther from the equator and the cause of this geographical pattern is not clear.
KO7e4 TIL in the 1970’s the United States government forcibly sterilized as many as 70,000 Native American women, often without consent or knowledge.