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TIL After a flat hunter in Israel sent a prospective landlord ????????????‍✌️☄️????️???? emojis before declining the offer for the apartment, the emojis formed evidence used by the landlord to argue that he had been misled. The sender was ordered to pay the owner $2 200 for lost rent.

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