› added 6 years ago

141

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.

Read more fairpropertylaws.org

via reddit.com

woyK8 TIL that the directors of Tangled held a “hot man meeting” and had all the women from the studio critique Hollywood men to create the character of Flynn Rider
8DBV TIL: The founder of Lululemon named it as such because he thought it would be funny to watch the Japanese try to pronounce it.
xm4w TIL no Canadian Prime Minister has been assassinated while serving their term and only two have died in office, as a result of a stroke, and heart attack respectively.
VmyZ TIL That in World War I, the Germans tried to use a picture of Quentin Roosevelt’s body as propoganda to increase moral. This backfired, as soldiers wondered why the sons of American Presidents were fighting and dying at the front, while the Kaiser’s sons were not.
NXEQ8 TIL that because Paris is so romanticised in eastern cultures, travellers to the city - especially from Japan and China - can end up experiencing an intense culture shock that can cause anything between vomiting to actual hallucinations. The effect has its own name - Paris Syndrome