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TIL scientists accidentally killed world’s oldest animal at age 507

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d7kQ TIL that from 2000-2001 in California, traders at the now defunct company, Enron, manipulated the price of energy by shutting down power grids causing rolling blackouts. These blackouts would increase demand for energy and thus cause the price to surge sometimes 20x above it’s normal value.
9LVG TIL that Lions used to be the world’s second most widespread land mammal, ranging from western Europe to India and in the Americas from Peru to the Yukon
5VQrQ TIL the title of the song in the beginning of Shrek (2001) is "All Star", not "Somebody Once Told Me".
j6NvQ TIL American Sniper Chris Kyle was killed at a shooting range by a mentally disturbed ex-Marine who suffered from PTSD. Kyle was trying to help him rehabilitate.
p8QLb TIL 90% of people have lost their virginity by age 22. If you haven't lost it by age 30, the likelihood you will never lose it increases drastically.