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TIL Northern Calloway, who played David on Sesame Street from '71 to '89, had a breakdown in 1980 in Nashville's suburbs where he attacked a woman with an iron, broke into a family's house and smashed their fine crystal, and poured herbicide on his body—while wearing nothing but a Superman t-shirt.

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