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TIL certain medications can potentially cause permanent tinnitus and hearing loss.

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xRYb TIL that a man by the name of Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only person alive to be officially credited for surviving both nuclear bomb blasts. He was in Hiroshima on business for an employer when the bomb dropped, survived, and then went to work in Nagasaki three days later when the second detonated.
Z8oXD TIL: Mysterious metal mini-awnings set knee-high on some London exteriors are urine deflectors. “A man may sometimes walk a mile before he can meet with a suitable" outdoor pee site, fussed an 1809 London writer who condemned the inventions that "conduct the stream into the shoes of the luckless."
7rAkx TIL for the role of Fin Tutuola in the show Law and Order: SVU, when Ice-T asked Producer Dick Wolf how it was to be performed, he was told to "do what Ice-T would do if he were a cop."
AN7jl TIL that McDonald's first Executive Chef Rene Arend invented both the McNuggets & the McRib
WKl8 TIL Black Americans preferred staying with British Soldiers during WWII due to the abuse their fellow Americans hurled at them. Americans even tried to implement segregation in the UK.