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TIL that NBC had another sitcom in the works at the same time as Seinfeld also named for its main actor called Ann Jillian that scored better with test audiences than Seinfeld's pilot episode and NBC executives gave a full season order. It was canceled after just one season.

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0w6rA TIL Katrin Himmler, the grandniece of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, was once asked if she would abstain from having children to "end the Nazi bloodline." Her response was no, explaining that the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is literal Nazi ideology.
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