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TIL that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak are the creators of Breakout, the iconic arcade game from the 70s. They built it as a single player evolution of Pong.

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m1d1x TIL in 1998, Sony had the opportunity to acquire the rights to nearly all of Marvel's characters for $25 million. However, they chose to only purchase the rights to Spider-Man for a mere $7 million, citing that "no one cares about the other Marvel characters."
mxWZp TIL that a teenager fooled an entire school, multiple police officers, and a car dealership that he was the youngest State Representative ever. He was escorted to the school, given a tour, and spoke to the high school students about being involved in politics.
wLZm1 TIL about Nameless, Texas. After submitting six names in order to get a post office and having all six rejected, citizens responded by stating, "Let the post office be nameless and be damned!" The government accepted this suggestion and the town of Nameless was born.
1nYV TIL English verbs used to have a “frequentative” form, which gave us words like “batter” from “bat”, “dazzle” from “daze”, and “trample” from “tramp”
9KvB TIL synovial fluid found in human joints is one of the most slipperiest substances known to man (more slippery than Teflon)