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TIL Arkansas landlords don’t have to maintain properties and tenant can be jailed for being one day late with rent.

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VBZ10 TIL There are more speakers of a language called Kannada than the population of Canada.
7r91p TIL the Japanese Navy always eat curry on Fridays to help sailors keep track of which day it is.
epABk TIL Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death (ROD) is a fungal disease that is rapidly killing forests of ʻōhiʻa (Metrosideros polymorpha)—an ecologically important native tree species within the Hawaiian Islands that has provided a plethora of habitats for endangered birds and other species.
P1x5J TIL that the grave of Harry Potter, a British soldier killed in a 1930s Palestinian revolt, has become a tourist attraction for simply sharing a name with the main character of JK Rowlings' series
5gyB TIL Ray Bradbury wrote a short story where a time traveling safari hunter accidentally crushes a butterfly under his boot in the Cretaceous period, thereby changing the course of history millions of years later. He wrote the story two decades before the term “Butterfly Effect” first came into use.