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TIL one of the aqueducts that provides half of New York Citys water leaks 35 million gallons a day, enough water to supply nearly half a million people a day. The fix will cost 1.5 BILLION dollars and wont be done until 2021.

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N7bGN TIL that Eminem almost died from a methadone overdose in 2007. Shorty after being released from the hospital he relapsed but quickly after that he stopped using drugs and has now been sober for ~11 years. The reason he gave for gaining his sobriety is that his family needed him.
gMvnW TIL that in ancient Athens, when no person was convicted for a murder, the murder weapon would be blamed and exiled to cleanse society
GA07 TIL In 1935, US Supreme Court honored Prophet Muhammad as one of the Greatest Lawgivers of the world.
W7yp9 TIL that in 2021 former NBA center Shawn Bradley was involved in a bike accident that left him paralyzed. He has since described his height (7 foot 6 or 2.29m) as a hindrance to recovery since quadriplegia at that height has no medical precedent.
DXpv TIL in 1969, Carl Sagan wrote an essay under pen-name “Mr. X” about how “marijuana produced a very rich array of insights” in the book “Marihuana Reconsidered”, who enjoyed smoking marijuana quite frequently