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TIL that the Ganges river receives around 19 billion gallons (72 billion liters) of sewage a day, most of which is untreated.

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4V9J TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional character Smaug has a ‘conservattive,’ estimated net worth of 61 billion.
5Ylm9 TIL that a lawyer defending a man accused of murder accidentally shot himself while demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. His client was cleared.
o70K TIL Jim Bowie - creator of the Bowie knife - was in an epic duel where he was shot 3 times - stabbed with a cane sword which was deflected by his sternum, and bludgeoned with a gun. With his knife he killed one man and severed the forearm of another. He won the fight and lived.
nW9Oo TIL of Chief Tuskaloosa, the giant Paramount Chieftain of modern day Alabama, who was killed in combat with the forces of Spanish Conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.
xVOQ0 TIL between 1963 and 1969 The Beatles won the New Musical Express' Vocal Group of the Year poll six times. Their only defeat in these years was in 1966, when The Beach Boys won instead.