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TIL There used to be mushroom farms in the Paris Catacombs

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91nD TIL Arkansas landlords don’t have to maintain properties and tenant can be jailed for being one day late with rent.
DQY4g TIL invention of the modern American football helmet is credited to US Naval Academy football player (and later Admiral) Joseph M. Reeves, who had a shoemaker create one for him after a Navy doctor told him another kick to his head could result in instant insanity or death.
Y7j6A TIL that the photo prank of putting two fingers up behind someone's head originally began as an insult. Once called the "Cuckhold's Horns", it initially meant to suggest that their partner was unfaithful.
4ZVX TIL the Bugatti Chiron has a max speed of 463 km/h but is electronically limited to 420 km/h
Me4QB TIL Alexander Graham Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.