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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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Ood57 TIL that Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburg, a relative of the slaughtered Romanov family, gave a blood sample to help genetically ID their remains when they were discovered and exhumed.
LZNd TIL of a rarely republished Nikola Tesla interview from 1899 called “Everything is the Light”. Tesla explains in his own words the concepts that later led to the industry shunning him.
Brm8d TIL that Lone Star ticks can give you meat allergy.
RPmw TIL that the commander of the first “Flamethrower unit” used in WW1 was named “Bernhard” and that before the war he was a firefighter.
vPZrx TIL about Georgia Tann; the woman who abducted, abused, and molested thousands of children via systematic kidnapping, became incredibly wealthy for selling said children to wealthy Americans, & essentially invented modern day adoption.