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TIL that tampons were originally designed for bullet wounds

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VMaZG TIL that Breaking Bad character Mike Ehrmantraut was created because Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) was unavailable for one of the episodes of Breaking Bad as he had to shoot for How I met your mother
KYew6 TIL that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, may not have existed. The only sources referencing it come from later Greeks and Romans. Herodotus, the Greek historian who would've lived closest to its construction, makes no mention of it in his work on Babylon.
wLvKP TIL the five-dot pattern commonly found on six-sided dice is called a Quincunx.
oRoK7 TIL that hiccups may reflect our amphibian ancestry. The neural mechanism controlling hiccups closely resembles the breathing pattern generator in tadpoles, which helps them breathe through gills while keeping water out of their lungs.
k6am TIL that the U.S. government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, defined as the most dangerous category. Cocaine and meth are placed in the less dangerous Schedule 2.