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TIL that across Cheers, Frasier, and the 2023 Frasier revival, Kelsey Grammer has played the character Frasier Crane in over 500 episodes—the most of any character in U.S. sitcom history.

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wLgLE TIL in 2007 there was a pet food recall on imported pet food from China that killed more than 8,500 pets. Congress enacted laws for the FDA to set new guidelines within 2 years. In 2016 the FDA reported they're still "drafting a regulation" and in 2018 Congress removed the guidelines for pet safety.
4W05 TIL one man is responsible for why women smoke, why we eat bacon & eggs at breakfast, why there’s fluoride in tap water, and why the US says it’s “spreading democracy” during war. He disliked the word “propaganda” so he coined the term “Public Relations”
186V TIL the slang “Eskimo Brothers” - meaning friends have slept with the same girl - derives from the old tradition of Eskimos gifting their wives to their guests for the night
GYrrg TIL Noblesse oblige is generally used to imply that with wealth, power, and prestige come responsibilities. Privilege must be balanced by duty towards those who lack such privilege. It can describe a person taking the blame for something in order to solve an issue or save someone else.
b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.