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

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bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
LKWZ TIL during the war of 1812 the patent office clerk threw himself in front of soldiers and successfully convinced them to spare the office, for knowledge benefits the entire world.
EYnd TIL that the Shortfin Mako Shark, the world’s fastest shark, can leap approximate 30 feet high or higher in the air.
W7yp9 TIL that in 2021 former NBA center Shawn Bradley was involved in a bike accident that left him paralyzed. He has since described his height (7 foot 6 or 2.29m) as a hindrance to recovery since quadriplegia at that height has no medical precedent.
m1YRv TIL about Straub v. BMT by Todd, an Indiana case that said that a parent can't bargain away child support even with a written pre-conception agreement. Justice DeBruler dissented, arguing that a promise by one parent to pay the other parent's child support share should be as binding as insurance.