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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.

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XXPj TIL Plot E, a hidden Cemetery,that does not officially exist is where the “the dishonorable dead” from WWII are buried,94 men who murdered or raped women,children and men during or after the war, and 1 who was a deserter.
D6nJ TIL in 1842 Queen Victoria had a pistol aimed at her while she was riding a carriage, but the gun misfired and the assassin escaped. The next day she deliberately took the same route to bait the assassin, who subsequently caught.
pY7kp TIL That Nearly Every Studio Ghibli Movie between 1984 - 2013 had it's colour scheme decided by one person, Michiyo Yasuda.
jypX TIL the world’s first bio-adaptive building facade in Hamburg uses algae-filled biomass panels to capture heat, reflect light and generate electricity - “it is, in essence, an architectural ecosystem”
4Xaa6 TIL that the Puritans got their name from their desire to have a completely Biblical "pure" church in England after the reformation.