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

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09kM TIL There’s a version of “Waterworld” nearly 4.5 hours long and it only aired on ABC once in 1998.
BPby TIL that in 1902 a volcanic eruption flattened an entire city, killing everyone but two people. One was a prisoner who only survived because he’d stabbed a policeman and had been put into solitary confinement. He was horribly burned, was pardoned of his crimes and became a circus attraction.
LklRv TIL the translation for 'breakfast' in Brazil is 'cafe da manha' which literally translates to 'coffee of the morning'. Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer.
x6Kk0 TIL of an aprils fool prank in 1962 (Sweden) that said you would get color tv if you put stockings over your tv. Thousands and thousands of stockings were destroyed that day. Color tv wasn't to air until 1967 (in sweden).
gMEo7 TIL Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp was the least terrible way to die.