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TIL: Clickhole was brought by Cards Against Humanity in 2020-feb-03

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6oyQ TIL the transmission of power via ropes and pulleys is more efficient than transmission by electricity up to a distance of several miles.
KOrYJ TIL"Enron Fraud", the largest bankruptcy reorganization in American history. The energy company's bankruptcy in 2001 after allegations of massive accounting fraud wiped out $78 billion in stock market value and led to the collapse of Arthur Andersen and the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
VBwXB TIL: On November 10, 1958, Harry Winston mailed the 45.52-carat Hope diamond in an envelope to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. from New York City. The postage was $2.44 and the $1 million dollar insurance fee was $142.85 ($145.29 total).
QN0be TIL the 1985 James Bond film A View To A Kill is regarded as the first-time snowboarding appeared in a mainstream film and is credited with helping to popularise the then-young sport.
J1PRB TIL - The first game-only online environment was the Sierra Network (later known as the ImagiNation Network), which launched in 1991