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TIL in 2017, a woman won a ~$43 million jackpot on a slot machine and, instead of paying her, the casino offered her a steak dinner and $2.25

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JYMLk TIL nonchalant, disheveled, nonplussed, disconsolate, and nonsensical are examples of unpaired words: words that appear to be formed by a prefix and an existing word, but aren't. Chalant, heveled, plussed, consolate, and sensical are not recognized as English words.
wYaW TIL an electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one knows what the battery is made of.
e0JxD TIL that the mousetrap is the "most frequently invented device in American history". The American Patent and Trademark Office has issued a total 4400 mousetrap patents, and 400 applications are still made yearly. Only 20 of these inventions have been commercially successful.
GgZE TIL that the concept for the Spider-Man villain, Venom, was a fan based idea that Marvel bought for a little more then $200.
jNy1a TIL scientists have found a way to make a mini dam. They can harvest the mechanical energy from the falling rain, and they convert it into electrical energy.