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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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l75YN TIL Dave Grohl drummed for Cage the Elephant while opening for the Foo Fighters after their drummer fell ill
rRn61 TIL that DNA companies to that analyze your DNA to find where your local origins are from, are just guesses at best. Identical twins who sent their probes in, didn’t get same results. Experts in this video state that those analysis are only a product for entertainment with low accuracy.
0YBA TIL that Comcast has won the “Worst Company in America” award twice, first in 2010 and second in 2014.
E1eDW TIL that in 2003, Paramount Pictures planned to make a movie based on Avril Lavigne's song "Sk8r Boi". However, the project eventually ended up in development hell and was later abandoned.
9w4mG TIL that a lottery scratch game called Cool Cash was pulled from the market after player complaints. The scratch card made ti that you get money if you got lower then the target temperature and people were saying they didn't get any money even though they got -6 or -7 and the temperature was -8.