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TIL DARE programs have been found to have no effect on drug use

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xX4o TIL - There’s a Christmastime tradition practiced in Newfoundland where people dress up in wacky costumes, knock on neighbours doors, sing using inward breathing and get drunk together.
N7NZJ TIL the line "I think it's across the bay, in Alameda" in Star Trek IV was ad-libbed by an extra. Studio had to get her to join the Actor Guild so they could keep the spontaneous line in the movie.
dDD1B TIL Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man In The World” campaign was inspired by “The man in the Hathaway shirt” ads that ran in the 1950’s by world famous advertiser David Ogilvy
Vvd0 TIL that Harvard has a pigment library where the sources of rare colors are stored. These sources include ground shells of now extinct insects, poisonious metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies.
NX8e1 TIL Bats live upto 40 years of age. When adjusted for size only 19 species of mammals live longer than humans. 18 of these species are bats.