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

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ne7BP TIL when poisonous frogs are fed zoo diets they no longer become poisonous. The wide variety of food in the wild supplies them with the chemicals for making poison.
xV8rD TIL That a supernatural character was cut entirely from the 1994 hit film The Crow. The Skull Cowboy's actor had already shot several scenes in costume and was set to film many more, but with the tragic death of Brandon Lee the ability to film personable scenes together became impossible.
QNZ76 TIL: Sir Edward Grey, who famously said at the beginning of WWI "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" went almost blind during the war.
rBke TIL Bill Gates once released a jar full of mosquitos into the audience during a TED talk on malaria
X0GZE TIL about Mare Moscovrae, a lunar mare meaning "Sea of Moscow". Such maria were named after mental states or words for water in that era, but despite this tradition, the IAU accepted the name. At the meeting, French astronomer Audouin Dollfus said "Moscow is, in fact, a state of mind".