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TIL Lego designed the holes in minifigure heads to allow kids to keep breathing if they become stuck in their throat

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Mev6K TIL: The message to new moms? Leave dad alone with baby. “Studies have actually shown that children who get more attention from their fathers in their first five years of life, actually have better reading scores in school”
5VOVQ TIL that if you are a woman on an oral contraceptive you are highly advised against smoking or consuming any nicotine as it has adverse and high risks for stroke, heart attacks, etc.
0wXaj TIL:"no body, no murder" rule have arisen from the "Campden Wonder" case occurred in the 1660s A local man vanished and after an investigation, three individuals were hanged for his murder. Two years later, the supposed victim appeared, telling a story of having been abducted and enslaved in Turkey
jN0EM TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was given an open casket despite having a mutilated body and the Soviet government only being able to recover a chipped heal bone because it was his last wish and a way to send a message to the government officials who had forced his flight in a dangerous craft.
7brx TIL that after the French Revolution, the scientific community implemented along with the metric system, metric time, which failed miserably due to the fact that people did not want to deviate from a 7 day week to a 10 day week.