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TIL that people who develop hearing problems during mid-life (aged 40–65) have an increased risk of developing dementia

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9oVB TIL that Kathryn Beaumont was 13-15 years old when she voiced Alice and Wendy in the original 1950s animated Disney films Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). She returned 50 years later to voice the same characters in 2002 for KingdomHearts at the age of 64.
R5VNw TIL Viagra was originally designed for heart problems until trials found that men who took it were getting more erections.
awrJ9 TIL that Durex released a service called SOS condom, where condoms would get delivered to houses in 2 hours. It launched in Dubai, but the government banned it in a week. They ran an internet poll to vote on where it would be next, but trolls voted for the city “Batman” and won, and it was canned.
XN0k TIL a BDSM-focused romance novel by Anne Rice (Exit to Eden) was adapted into a buddy cop movie with Dan Akroyd and Rosie O'Donnell
D1b5v TIL: After training together to fly the the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission between USA and USSR in 1975, American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remained life long friends, and Leonov even became the godfather to Stafford's younger children.