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TIL: Under the Federal Housing Act (FHA) in the US, it is possible for people with disabilities to terminate a lease if the place of living is making their condition worse and there are no other reasonable accommodations to be made.

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RK58 TIL Barry Goldwater said, And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. “
J4dV TIL Gary Cooper was offered a part on the movie Gone with the Wind but rejected it saying, “Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history. I’m glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling flat on his nose, not me”. It became the highest grossing film of all time for inflation.
wrAP TIL that on a 1983 episode of Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Viewer complained in 2001 and it was edited out. Ritter’s quote on this: “I’ve requested that they air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”
mBY TIL that James Madison said that “if tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be under the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
Ooakg TIL that there have been at least six instances of chimpanzees stealing and eating human babies.