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TIL that Enron cost the state of California as much as $40 billion by causing artificial rolling blackouts in 2000 and 2001.

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4Dk5 TIL that in 1948, before the NBA had any black players, the Harlem Globetrotters beat the NBA Champion Lakers in a straight up game.
W79mB TIL there was a real life Chef Boy-ar-dee who was the head chef at The Plaza in NYC. He anglicized his name from Boiardi because non-Italians couldn't pronounce it.
EBjP TIL French WWI infantry went into a disastrous battle baa'ing like sheep- they knew they were being sent to the slaughter.
9KPD Today I Learned In 2000, a fight broke out while Zevon was performing “Werewolves of London” at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. Zevon stopped, waited for the fight to end, said “I bet this never happens at Sting concerts,” and continued the song.
VQZ0 TIL that in 1992, instead of engaging in a messy legal battle over the use of a slogan, the CEOs of Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation simply arm-wrestled for whose company would own it.