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TIL that Arkansas is the only state where landlords are not required to make repairs or keep property in habitable condition, and failure to vacate is a crime.

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ejRg TIL the origin of the piggy bank, which started in the Middle Ages with the material used to make storage jars for coins: an orange clay called “pygg.” Through language evolution and cultural overlap, English potters were asked to make pygge banks, so they started making them in the shape of pigs.
KORJ TIL that the women of Utah gained the right to vote 50 years before the U.S. itself, in 1870. But since Utah women voted in ways favorable to polygamy, the U.S. Congress revoked this right in 1887.
nWV6G TIL Australia has snow, ski resorts, the Australian Alps and a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden.
1a71D TIL when you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma
rNaNW TIL about Chesterton’s Fence- the rule of thumb that says one shouldn’t alter, destroy, or remove something established and present- whether a physical object or structure, or something more abstract like laws, rules, and traditions- without first understanding why it’s there in the first place.