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TIL Olympics Used To Award Medals For Art

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K75w TIL Arkansas is the only state where rentals don’t have a warranty of habitability. So, landlords can knowingly rent dangerous or otherwise uninhabitable properties with no recourse for the renter.
0dPWN TIL that Lil Wayne had his first child when he was 16 and his girlfriend was 15.
0jwR TIL that eugenics, a movement that led to the murder of millions in WWII, was practiced in the United States many years before eugenics programs in Nazi Germany, which were largely inspired by the previous American work.
gMAND TIL that Japan has over 5 million operating vending machines currently within the country, making it so there is 1 vending machine per 23 people, making it the country with the most vending machines per capita in the entire world.
KOyQ6 TIL about a British man who bought a ceramic pot at a junk sale for less than £4 and used it as a toothbrush holder until learning it was actually made in the Indus Valley of present-day Afghanistan about 4,000 years ago. It's thought the pot was originally brought to the UK by British tourists.