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TIL Nearly half of South Korean residential rentals use the “jeonse" system where renter gives an interest-free loan to the landlord based on the house's price in lieu of rent

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WkmGo TIL in 1992, Bosnian sportsman Aleksandar Đurić was invited to compete in canoeing at the Barcelona Olympics. The Bosnian Olympic Committee couldn't afford to pay for his travel, so he hitch-hiked his way over 1500 km, including a 2 day trek, and borrowed equipment from the Spanish and Italian teams
e4AJ TIL that Carlos Vasquez, a dry cleaner in New York, has a sign outside his shop that reads: If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an interview, we will clean it for FREE".
JYaD4 TIL in 1997 an experiment to build a castle, using only medieval tools began, and twenty one years later they're more than half way finished.
pg9Z TIL when asked why he thought the 1967 bill decriminalising homosexuality in the UK passed but his bill protecting badgers didn’t, the Earl of Arran said “There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.”
DQdEg TIL that when Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was criticized for wearing no. 88 (a code used by nazis), he claimed to not have known about the meaning and had only chosen it because no. 01 had been denied, which he'd wanted due to his admiration for the "Gerneral Lee" from Dukes of Hazard.