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TIL That more than 24 billion gallons of combined untreated sewage and stormwater is dumped into the Great Lakes each year.

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R7nna TIL that the budget for the original 1978 film Halloween was so small that the actor playing Michael Myers was paid $20 per day and the original Michael Myers mask was purchased at a local costume shop for $1.29. The film grossed $47 million.
lo87V TIL In China, someone set up a fake bank branch office and it operated "normally" for more than 1 year. All the money that customers put in (~$32m) was gone.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.
6EkN7 TIL: In March, a Tokyo Man rappelled down the side of a building using a rope to break into a trading card store on the 6th floor to steal 80 Pokémon and Yu Gi Oh cards worth a million yen. He claimed it was to pay off a debt. He was foiled by security cameras.
oRpyY Today I learned that Charles Foussard spent 70 years and 303 days in custody in Ararat, Victoria (Australia) between 1903 and 1974 for killing an old man and stealing his boots, making him the prisoner with the longest effective incarceration. He died while still incarcerated.