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TIL that tapes revealed that Enron shut down a power station in California and created an artificial power shortage, deliberately aggravating the 2001 California Energy Crisis, so they could raise prices and cost residents billions in surcharges.

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ZLlD TIL the Paris airport still runs on Windows 3.1
epVR4 TIL Peri Gilpin (who played Roz on Frasier) lost her news anchor father (Jim O'Brien) in a skydiving accident in 1983.
eYJ5 TIL that NASA has 2 satellites chasing each other around the Earth tracking the distance between themselves to measure gravitacional anomalies. Their nicknames are “Tom” and “Jerry”.
YjeA TIL that Hitler had a sister, Paula, who chose to believe that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust.
vPEW7 TIL the 55-metre (180 ft) Lüneburg Water Tower was built in 1907 in a neo-Gothic style to fit in its urban environment in the middle of the old town, surrounded by medieval streets and churches.