Did you know that Solar City in August 2016, announced that the company planned to cut the salaries of its two co-founders from $275,000 to $1 per year?

Did you know that SolarCity Corporation is a subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. that specializes in solar energy services and is headquartered in San Mateo, California?

Did you know that SolarCity markets, manufactures, and installs residential and commercial solar panels in the US?

Did you know that Solar City  merged with Tesla, Inc. and now offers energy storage services through Tesla, including a turnkey residential battery backup service that incorporates Tesla's Powerwall?

Did you know that Solar City the company, is in partnership with Panasonic, which operates the Tesla Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, New York, where it manufactures solar module components?

Original SolarCity headquarters in Foster City, California

Installation vehicles with the original SolarCity logo

SolarCity vehicle with current SolarCity l

Did you know that SolarCity was founded in 2006 by brothers Peter and Lyndon Rive,^[2] based on a suggestion for a solar company concept by their cousin, Elon Musk, who is the chairman and helped start the company?^[3]

Did you know that in 2013, according to GTM Research, SolarCity was the leading residential solar installer in the U.S?^[6]

Did you know that Solar Power World magazine listed it as the No. 2 overall solar installation company in the U.S?^[7]

Did you know that SolarCity purchased Paramount Solar from Paramount Equity for $120 million in 2013?^[8]

Did you know that October 2014, SolarCity announced it would be offering up to $200 million in solar bonds to launch a new online website to buy the debt, the first registered public offering of such bonds in the United States?^[10] 

 
Did you know that in March 2016 SpaceX bought $90 million of SolarCity stock?^[11]

Did you know that in late 2015, SolarCity withdrew from solar sales and installation in Nevada, following the decision by the state's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to raise the monthly service charge for rooftop solar customers and progressively reduce the return on solar energy sold back into the grid under the state's net metering rule?^[12]

Did you know under the new rules, the monthly service charge imposed on Nevada Power's rooftop solar-generating customers rose from $12.75 to $17.90 and was scheduled to rise to $38.51 by January 1, 2020?

Did you know that as a result, state's Public Utilities Commission SolarCity eliminated more than 550 jobs in Nevada?^[12]

Did you know that in June 2016, Musk's car and battery company, Tesla, submitted an offer to acquire SolarCity for $2.5–3 billion.^[13] According to Musk, the reason for this is "Creating a seamlessly integrated Tesla battery & solar power product that looks beautiful".^[14]On August 1, 2016, SolarCity accepted Tesla Motors' offer of 2.6 billion. The merger was completed later in 2016.^[15][16]

 Did you know that SolarCity at the end of 2015,  had 15,273 employees but at the end of 2016, it had 12,243 employees?^[18]

Did you know that when SolarCity eliminated 20% of its total workforce in 2016,^[18] the company did so to preserve cash?^[19]

Did you know that Solar City job cuts affected workers across the entire company,^[18][17] 22% of jobs were cut in operations, installations, and manufacturing; and 27% in sales and marketing?

Did you know that Solar City in August 2016,  announced that the company planned to cut the salaries of its two co-founders from $275,000 to $1 per year?^[21]

Did you know that on August 1, 2016, Tesla announced in a joint statement with SolarCity it would be acquiring the company in an all-stock $2.6 billion merger?

Did you know that Tesla's mission since its inception has been to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy?

Did you know that as of August 2016, Musk owned 22% of SolarCity stock.^[25] More than 85% of unaffiliated shareholders from Tesla and SolarCity voted to approve the acquisition on November 17, 2016,^[26][27] which was closed on the morning of November 21, 2016?^[16]

Did you know that Tesla's 2017 goals are to launch a new car, open a large battery factory, and "perfect autonomous driving"?

Did you know that the Buffalo Billion is a billion-dollar program from the administration of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,  the program's intention is to revitalize Buffalo New York in areas across Western New York?

Did you know that the New York state legislature plans to approve a budget by April 1, 2017 that would give $500 million more into the Buffalo Billion program?^[70]

Did you know that the Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum was to investigate solar panel sales practices for Accountability, Solar City had received 58 complaints that consumers filed with the Oregon Department of Justice and said that the complaints indicated "a widespread pattern of apparent fraud and abuse by solar companies"?^{[74] ]}

Did you know that in September 2017, SolarCity agreed to pay a $29.5 million penalty regarding allegations that the company overstated the cost of facilities it developed and submitted claims for under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which would be a violation of the False Claims Act?

Did you know that SolarCity's received $280 million from Google which was the largest fund of its kind in the U.S?

Did you know that Google's was also the largest investor in clean energy?^[87]

SolarCity in Buffalo New York

Did you know that in 2014, SolarCity announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York,the initial manufacturing complex will be a 1.2-million-square-foot (110,000 m²) facility that will cost $900 million and employ 1,500 workers in Buffalo and 5,000 statewide?^[88]

Did you know with a planned capacity of one gigawatt of solar panels annually by 2019, the new plant would be the largest solar plant in the U.S?^[89]

Did you know that Panasonic is to handle production at the Buffalo plant, investing $256 million?^[93]

Did you know that Panasonic and SolarCity/Silevo are developing similar but somewhat different HIT-technology, and by combining the two companies' technologies  SolarCity expects the Buffalo plant production of 10,000 solar panels per day^?

Did you know that Elon Musk announced in 2017 that production of Tesla's solar roof products would be moved to the Buffalo plant at the end of 2017?^[100]

Did you know that as of August 2017, production of solar roof tiles had begun at the factory, and Tesla expected to continue to ramp up production through the rest of the year?^[66]

 

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Did you know that all letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana?

Did you know that early illustrations of St. Nicholas make him out to be a stern symbol of discipline rather than the jolly, overweight elf that children know today?

Did you know that all letters addressed to Santa in the United States go to Santa Claus, Indiana?

 

 

Did you know that Engineers that designed the Voyager Space Mission planned things out so it would avoid planetary encounters during Thanksgiving and Christmas?

Did you know that there is a village in Peru where people settle the previous year's grudges by fist fighting, they then start the new year off on a clean slate?

Did you know that some zoos accept donated Christmas trees as food for their animals?

Did you know that the song "White Christmas" by Irving Berlin is the best selling single in history with over 100 million copies sold?

Did you know that Paul McCartney earns nearly half a million dollars every year from his Christmas song, which many critics regards as his worst song ever?

Did you know that a large part of Sweden's population watches Donald Duck cartoons every Christmas Eve since 1960?

Did you know that many of the open Denny’s restaurants were built without locks, which was problematic when they decided to close down for Christmas for the first time in 1988?

Did you know that nearly all of the most popular Christmas songs including ‘Winter Wonderland’, ‘Chestnuts roasting…’, and ‘I’m Dreaming of a white Christmas’ were written by Jewish people?

Did you know that in 1918 and for the past 40 years, the Canadian province of Nova Scotia has sent the city of Boston a giant Christmas tree as a thank you for their support after the 1917 Halifax explosion?

Did you know that in 1867, a Boston industrialist heard Charles Dickens read A Christmas Carol and was so moved he closed his factory on Christmas Day and gave every one of his employees a turkey?

Did you know that Between the 16th and 19th centuries was what is known as a "little ice age" where global temperatures were several degrees lower than normal. It is for this reason that many Christmas carols and songs stress a "White Christmas"?

Did you know that Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is the only record to get the UK Christmas Singles Chart Number One twice, once in 1975 and again in 1991?

Did you know that the Nazi party tried to turn Christmas into a nonreligious holiday celebrating the coming of Hitler, with Saint Nicholas replaced by Odin the “Solstice Man” and swastikas on top of Christmas trees?

Did you know that Japanese people traditionally eat at KFC for Christmas dinner, thanks to a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago?

Did you know that KFC is so popular in Japan that customers must place their Christmas orders 2 months in advance?

Did you know that the people of Oslo, Norway donate the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree every year in gratitude to the people of London for their assistance during WWII?

Did you know that Christmas purchases account for 1/6 of all retail sales in the U.S annually?

 

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Did you know that Barton was first elected to Congress in 1984 and he was the longest-serving member in the Texas delegation ?

Congressman on tape tells woman he would report her to Capitol Police because she could expose his secret sex life

Did you know that Rep. Joe Barton, R- Texas, told a woman to whom he had sent sexually explicit photos, videos and messages that he would report her to the Capitol Police if she exposed his behavior, according to a recording reviewed by The Washington Post? 

Did you know that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex. announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018 in the wake of public revelations of his sexual communications with women?

Did you know that Barton of the 6th District of Texas Rep for over three decades?

Did you know that Barton was first elected to Congress in 1984 and he was the longest-serving member in the Texas delegation and currently serves as the vice chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee?

Did you know that a nude photo of the congressman was published on Twitter and the photo was taken while he was separated from his second wife and had consensual sexual relationships with other women?

Did you know that Barton and his wife are now divorced?

After the photo was published, he apologized to his constituents, saying he "did not use better judgment in those days."

Did you know that Barton suggestive private conversations he had with women have since been published.

Prior to the publication of the photo and those conversations, Barton had announced his plans to seek an 18th term in Congress.


 

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Did you know that Corey Feldman alleged that actor Jon Grissom and former child talent manager and convicted sex offender Martin Weiss both molested him when he was younger?

Did you know that Actor Corey Feldman said he went to law enforcement in 1993 and gave them the names of sexual predators, but the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said that wasn’t true?

Did you know that now the California sheriff’s office is saying differently?

Did you know that Feldman, 46, has long insisted there are people in Hollywood who are guilty of abusing child actors?

Did you know that Feldman alleged that actor Jon Grissom and former child talent manager and convicted sex offender Martin Weiss both molested him when he was younger?

Did you know that Feldman said he went to the police in 1993 and nothing happened. Fearful of retaliation, he never went back to the authorities?

Did you know that now, the authorities say they have found the tapes from Feldman’s 1993 visit to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office?

In a statement first released Tuesday night, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office public information officer Kelly Hoover wrote:

Due to the fact that this case involves the alleged sexual abuse of a child, we are unable to comment further and any documentation or evidence related to this case is exempt from release.

Did you know that the discovery of the tapes comes in the midst of an explosion of sexual predator claims?

Did you know that ever since film executive Harvey Weinstein was accused of widespread sexual misconduct, the dominos have fallen in quick succession with figures in business, media, Hollywood and politics being called out by victims?

Did you know that Time magazine just named The Silence Breakers, whom the magazine described as “the individuals who set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment,” as its Person of the Year?

Did you know that Feldman has been trying to raise $10 million to make a movie about the sexual abuse he experienced?

 

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Did you know that Terry Crews Sues The Talent Agent who Allegedly Groped Him?

Did you know that Terry Crews continues to fight back against the talent agent who allegedly groped him at a Hollywood party in 2016?

Did you know that The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” actor filed a lawsuit Monday against Adam Venit and the agent’s company, William Morris Endeavor, for assault, battery and gender violence?

Did you know that The complaint asserted that Venit had not been properly held accountable for the

Did you know that Crews submitted a police report on the incident in early November after joining the many women and men who have gone public with allegations of being sexually victimized by powerful figures in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal?

Did you know that in late November, Crews complained that Venit’s one-month unpaid suspension and demotion were not sufficient?

Did you know that according to the suit, Crews discussed the alleged assault the following morning with his agent at the time, Brad Slater, who also worked for WME, and was assured the company would handle the matter?

Did you know that Crews dropped WME as his agency last month when Venit, never called him to apologize?

Did you know that Crews says the alleged groping psychologically damaged him and that WME has retaliated against him by preventing the actor from landing certain roles?

 

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Growing list of Senate Democrats call for Sen. Al Franken to resign?

Did you know that Sen Franken The Minnesota senator called the latest anonymous accusation "categorically not true" but says he'll make an announcement on Thursday?

Did you know that Alex Brandon, Associated Press

Politico reported that a former Democratic aide says Sen. Al Franken tried to forcibly kiss her in 2006?

 

Did you know that a large group of Democratic U.S. senators called Wednesday for Sen. Al Franken to resign, throwing the Minnesota senator’s political future into jeopardy over a growing list of sexual harassment allegations against him?

Amy Klobuchar,

Franken’s fellow Democrat in the Senate, Amy Klobuchar, stopping short of adding her voice to the
resignation chorus, said in a tweet: “This morning I spoke with Senator Franken and ... I am confident he will make the right decision.”

Did you know that the initial wave for Franken’s resignation was comprised of all women from the chamber’s 16 Democratic female senators in a series of social media posts that appeared nearly simultaneously on Wednesday morning?

Did you know that numerous male colleagues from the Senate’s Democratic caucus, as well as Republicans, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Susan Collins of Maine. Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez also urged Franken to step down?

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp

Did you know that ” Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota explained in a tweet that “for decades as a country, we have been far too tolerant and dismissive of past allegations.”

Early Wednesday afternoon, according to the Boston Globe, an aide to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she told Franken that he should resign?

Did you know that if Franken does resign, it would fall to DFL Gov. Mark Dayton to appoint a temporary replacement?

Did you know that Franken seat would be on the ballot in next November’s election — joining an open governor’s race and Klobuchar’s re-election bid, which would make for the highest-stakes Minnesota election in a generation?

Did you know that the latest accusation against Franken came from a former Democratic congressional aide who told a national politics news website that he tried to force a kiss on her after a recording of his radio show in 2006, three years before he took office?

Did you know that the Democratic senator is among a growing list of politicians, entertainers and news media figures facing a wide range of allegations involving sexual misdeeds?

Did you know that Numerous women have leveled accusations against Franken — some anonymously?

Leann Tweeden

Did you know that the first was Los Angeles radio host Leann Tweeden, who said Franken forced a kiss on her during a USO tour several years ago before he joined the Senate/

Did you know that Stephanie Kemplin said that Franken had cupped her breast when she stood next to him for a photo in December 2003 during her military deployment in Kuwait?

Stephanie Kemplin and Al Franken

told CNN that

Lindsay Menz

Did you know that Kemplin said that Franken grabbed her buttocks at the Minnesota State Fair while posing for photos during events in 2007, 2008 and 2010?

Did you know that Lindsay Menz said that Franken had made her feel uncomfortable with him trying to touch her?

Did you know that as the accusations against Franken have accumulated, the number of women on a list publicly supporting him has grown as well, at this point more than 100 women are former staffers in his Senate office, former colleagues from “Saturday Night Live,” elected officials, nonprofit board members, community leaders and members of the DFL Party?


 

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Did you know that Whole Foods has been ranked as one of the 100 best places to work by Fortune for the last 18 consecutive years?

Did you know that the original name of the Whole Foods was “SaferWay” — because, you know, that was originally how Whole Foods founders wanted to one-up Safeway with their awesomeness?

 Did you know that Whole Foods last year, sales were $15.4 billion?

Did you know that Whole Foods offers more than 2600 natural and organic products, as well as its 365 Everyday Value products?

Did you know that if a brand manages to get eye-level rack space in Whole Foods, the brand has officially made it, Why? Because shoppers are willing to shell out more than $5 per bottle of kombucha and would rather save up from local, organic produce from Whole Foods than a fancy meal at a restaurant?

Did you know that John Mackey, the CEO and co-founder of Whole Foods, has been making $1 per year since 2007?

Did you know that Mackey doesn’t take home a bonus, nor does he have any stock options, he said “I have reached a point in my life where I no longer want to work for money,” Mackey told employees in a letter in 2007?
 

Did you know that Whole Foods has been ranked as one of the 100 best places to work by Fortune for the last 18 consecutive years? 

Did you know that Whole Food has also been credited as the top job creator, having increased the number of employees by 784% since the Fortune list began?

Did you know that Whole Food has more than 85,000 team members and Whole Foods is the titan of the high-end grocery store industry? 

Did you know that several times a year, our stores hold community giving days (known as “5% Days”) where five percent of that day’s net sales are donated to a local nonprofit or educational organization?

Did you know that Whole Foods Markets stopped using disposable plastic bags at checkout on Earth Day 2008, keeping 150 million plastic bags out of the landfills since then?

Did you know that Whole Foods started with 19 Team Members in 1980, and several of them are still with us?

Our Local Producer Loan Program (LPLP) provides up to $10 million in low-interest loans to support small local farmers and producers.

With "the crack heard round the world," Whole Foods Market was recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records for "the most wheels of parmigiano reggiano ever cracked at the same time."

Did you know that the Whole Foods in Glastonbury, CT store was the first supermarket to generate power from an on-site fuel cell?

Did you know Whole Foods Market was once under seven feet of water? The 11,000 sq ft building that housed it in the early 1980s (now a used music store) was hit by the Memorial Day flood in 1981. What we learned: oranges float. Wine bottles don’t?

Did you know that Team Members. Lee Tobin. a baker from our Chapel Hill store began experimenting with gluten-free baking and by October 2004, he was proud to fire up the gluten-free ovens in a new, completely separate, dedicated facility: the Whole Foods Market Gluten Free Bakehouse?

Did you know that in 2006, Whole Foods purchased enough renewable energy credits from wind farms to offset 100% of the electricity used in all stores and facilities in the U.S. and Canada?

 

Did you know that it was the largest wind energy credit purchase in the history of North America?

Our Team Members are very generous folks. They have donated over $500,000 to the Whole Planet Foundation, funding 2,700 microloans and helping over 13,000 people work to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

Did you know that Whole Foods commissary kitchen in Massachusetts gets 100% of its electricity from recycled cooking oil?

Did you know that CEO John Mackey “a man who has done more to improve the quality, sustainability, healthfulness, and purity of the food Americans eat—from farm field and barnyard to kitchen table—than anyone else in the past 25 years?

 

Every month our Westport, CT store names Team Members “King and Queen of Customer Service.” The King and Queen get to do a “shop til you drop” for 2 minutes in our grocery aisles, collecting as many 365 Everyday Value products as they possibly can. Normally Team Members go home with 2 to 3 carts full of groceries, and get to have the rest of the Team Members cheer them on and yell what they should be picking up.

Did you know that Whole Foods Markets are on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr?

 Did you know that Whole Foods offers double discounts on its produce once Friday afternoon rolls around, so weekends are by far the best time to score a deal?

Did you know that Whole Foods hires cheese lovers who have received credentials from the American Cheese Society?

Did you know that only 406 people have passed its certification exam, so we’re talking serious prestige in the cheese world?

Did you know that at Whole Foods, all salaries are available for any employee to discover, Mackey believes that having a transparent salary empowers employees and motivates them to do more?

Did you know that Whole Foods Market is now the largest supermarket retailer of natural and organic food products in the world?

Did you know that if you had the power of teleportation, you could visit a different Whole Foods Market store every single day of the year — and into the next year. There are 385 Whole Foods locations around America, Canada and the U.K?

John Mackey and Rene Lawson,

Did you know that Whole Foods founders, John Mackey and Rene Lawson, lived at the flagship store
in Austin for a while after opening it, because they got kicked out of their apartment for storing food products in it. They bathed using the dishwasher shower hose?

Did you know that Whole Food
’ commitment to natural food products is evident by its enduring commitment to research unhealthy additives and add them to its ever-growing list of unacceptable ingredients. Hydrogenated fats, artificial colors, preservatives, and sweeteners are strictly prohibited from being in every product sold at the grocery chain?

Did you know that New Orleans was home to the first Whole Foods store outside of Texas and sixth overall, opening in 1988?

Did you know that the Whole Food company isn’t just concerned about organic foods; Whole Foods opened its own gluten-free bake house in Raleigh, N.C. in 2004?

Austin flagship Whole Foods

Did you know that the Austin flagship Whole Foods is unsurprisingly the largest of all the locations at 80,000 square feet. It has a 25,000-square-foot roof garden, a plaza with 200 shaded seats, space for entertainers, a playscape, a flowing stream and native landscaping — oh and an ice skating rink o?

Did you know that Detroit Mayor Dave Bling called the Whole Food store’s opening in the troubled city a “game changer?”

Did you know that The Edgewater, Ill. location outside of Chicago opening later this month was built to accommodate two or three “hangouts,” which could include a tap room or wine bar so people would “linger longer” in the store?


Did you know that animal products have to meet a strict set of regulations to make it onto Whole Foods Market shelves, including: no antibiotics, no hormones, no animal by-product ingredients, animals traceability to farms, pasture-based farming (animals can have only very limited time in barns), no castration or tail docking allowed, natural weaning, and animals must be in a four-hour proximity to the slaughter facilities?

Did you know that you can even buy vegan cane sugar at Whole Foods ?


 

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