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Zach Galifianakis pays the rent of an 87-year-old lady who used to live at the laundromat he used before he was famous and he sometimes takes her to his film premieres.

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The city of London still pays rent to the Queen on land it leased in 1211. Nobody even knows where the land is located anymore. But over the past centuries, the city has paid the same flat rate: a knife, an axe, six oversized horseshoes, and 61 nails.

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  1. The founder of Little Caesers payed Rosa Parks’ rent for years after he found out that she was assaulted and robbed in her home.

  2. The city of London is still paying rent of a sharp axe, a billhook, 6 horseshoes, and 61 nails to the Queen on a property leased in 1211

  3. Billionaire Mark Cuban wrote: "The most patriotic thing you can do: bust your ass and get rich. Make a boatload of money. Pay your taxes. Lots of taxes. Hire people. Train people. Pay people. Spend money on rent, equipment, services. Pay more taxes."

  4. Zack Galifianakis pays the rent for an apartment for a homeless women he knew growing up. He's also taken her to two Hangover premiers as his date.

  5. After arriving in Los Angeles at 19, a broke Charlize Theron tried to cash a check from her mother to pay for rent, but the teller refused. She got into a shouting match with him, drawing the attention of a talent agent behind her, who introduced her to casting agents and an acting school.

  6. An Israeli couple were forced to pay over $2000 for an apartment they never rented because their use of smiley and champagne emojis in a text with the prospective landlord conveyed "great optimism", causing him to take the property off the market.

  7. Bob's burger restaurant, Bob's Burgers (from "Bob's Burgers") would need to sell 785 of Bob's burgers per month in order to pay rent.

  8. The Republic of Texas had its own embassy-like building in London. When it joined the rest of the United States in 1845, the officials skipped town without paying their rent.

  9. A woman rented a limousine and drove up to a Burlington Coat Factory and said she won the lottery and would pay for all purchases. A mob formed. When she revealed she was lying and ran off, the mob looted the store!

  10. Foreign diplomats who rent property in the U.S. cannot be legally obligated to pay the rent, and the landlords are forbidden from entering the property at all. Some diplomatic missions have run up $1 million in back rent.

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In South Korea to rent an apartment you have to pay lump sum up to 80% of the value of it. You then live "rent free" for two years, then get your money back.

The annual 72,500 roubles rent that USA payed for the ambassadors house in Moscow was equal to 3 dollars in 2001 post-soviet inflation value. Since the US-Soviet contract didn't provide for currency fluctuations, USA argued that the rent should stay fixed. - source

Mario Seagale, Nintendo America's original landlord. When Nintendo couldn't pay their rent, they offered to name the character in their new game after him, thus creating 'Mario'. - source

Bolivia's largest prison, San Pedro, has a society within itself, with no guards inside the walls. It has shops and restaurants run by inmates. Inmates elect their own leaders, get jobs to pay for their cell's rent, and can even live with their wives and children

Otto Frank (Anne Frank's father) kept paying the rent for their old apartment until July 1st 1943, they went into hiding on July 6th 1942. Otto hoped that the war would be short and that they could move back in after it was over. - source

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The "Battle of B-R5RB". It was an epic digital battle in EVE online and it costed $300,000 in real world money.It began when someone forgot to pay an in-game rent for an in-game space station.

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London is still paying rent to the Queen on a property leased in 1211 and the rent consists of 2 knives, 6 horseshoes and 61 nails

Rent parties played a major role in the development of jazz and blues music. Tenants would hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent and the musicians.

Some muskrats live in beaver lodges over the winter. The beavers share food with them, and the muskrats pay their rent by bring back foliage to help keep the beaver lodge sturdy

Bulgarians who couldn't afford to pay rent on a store would open "knee shops" at ground level, operating out of the basements of buildings.

The homeless of Japan sleep in 24-hour Internet cafés, since it's cheaper than paying rent

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Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club

In the Middle Ages, onions were such an important food that people would pay their rent with onions, and even give them as gifts.

The cartoon rooster, Foghorn Leghorn, a master of nonsensical insults, ironically once said, “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent”.

Ari Teman, who thought he was renting out his apartment via Airbnb to some wedding guests, but instead, when he returned to get a bag he had forgotten, learned the renters were in the middle of throwing a pay-to-enter BBW orgy in his apartment

As a German college student, Leonie Müller paid roughly $380 a month to live on a train because it was cheaper than paying rent

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In 1966 Don DeLillo began writing his first novel. While writing his novel he had to stop periodically to write freelance in order to pay his rent. It took him four years to complete his first novel.

The housing crisis in San Francisco is so bad that people who are paying rent, have jobs, and are able to afford their current rent, are being forced to evict by the landlords so they can sell the individual units as condos.

Elon Musk had to borrow money to pay rent after he spent all $180 million from PayPal

Japanese millionaire Genshiro Kawamoto is giving mansions to native Hawaiian low income families rent-free, only having them pay for the utilities, and they will be able to stay in the homes for up to 10 years.

In Canada, a common way to pay your monthly rent is to give your new landlord 12 cheques, dated for the first day of the next 12 months

Kathy Najimy (Sister Act, Hocus Pocus) appeared on the game show $25,000 Pyramid in the '80's, before she was famous, and won enough money to pay her rent for a year.

A townhouse in the West Village section of NYC recently sold for $11 million. It contains two rent controlled apartments, one tenant pays $127.61 a month, while the other pays $627 a month

Bolivia's largest prison has a society within itself and no guards inside the walls. Inmates elect their own leaders, make their own laws, get jobs to pay for their cell's rent, and can even live with their families.

Arkansas is the only US state where tenants can end up as convicted criminals because they did not pay their rent on time.

Ari Teman, who thought he was renting out his apartment via Airbnb to some wedding guests, but instead, when he returned to get a bag he had forgotten, learned the renters were in the middle of throwing a pay-to-enter BBW orgy in his apartment

The founder & CEO of Little Caesar's Pizza payed Rosa Park's rent so that she could live in a better part of Detroit until her death.

In the oldest social housing complex in the world you pay under €1 rent per year

When you fly over a foreign country, your plane has to pay them rent

When filming ‘Heaven’s Gate,’ the studio, United Artists, could not figure out why they were paying so much to rent the land they were filming on. Upon investigation, they discovered the land belonged to Michael Cimino, the writer and director of the film.

In British law peppercorns have been used throughout history (even today) to buy or pay rent for properties. This is because unless both parties offer to exchange something of value (no matter how little value) a contract is not legally binding.

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