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You’ve been grabbing a foreign object and shoving it inside of you since you were a preteen. I’m talking about tampons, of course. But how much do you really know about the synthetic fabrics that sit in your body, sometimes for hours at a time? Here are 15 facts about tampons that you should know.

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Your tampon doesn’t go where you pee

In case this hasn’t been cleared up for you yet (and this actually hasn’t been cleared up for a lot of women!) you have three holes down there: the urinary, the vaginal and the anal. Your tampon doesn’t go in your urethra because you would obviously urinate all over it when it’s time to go to the bathroom.