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TIL fans turned on Seinfeld character George Costanza twice. He was played as being a terrible person doing atrocious things, and while viewers happily went along with most of his unsavory schemes, they reviled him when he killed Susan and when he ate an eclair out of the garbage.

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oBQLW TIL in 2017, Zac Efron nearly experienced a mental breakdown trying to achieve the 'perfect' body for Baywatch. In 2019, he admitted he never wants to be in that good of shape again, calling it an "unrealistic" ideal for men.
GA1EG TIL a border collie named Rico was the subject of the first published study on gifted dogs. The research showed that Rico understood 200 words. He also responded correctly to the word for a new object after hearing it just once. This suggested he had the canine equivalent of the ability to fast map.
Oo8ee TIL Singer Tina Turner relinqished her US citizenship in 2013 and is now a citizen of Switzerland where she has been living since 1994.
Kb0J TIL that the last Abbasid Caliph failed to use his wealth to raise an army to defend Baghdad from the Mongols. According to Marco Polo, after the city fell the caliph was locked in his treasure room without food and told to “eat of thy treasure as much as thou wilt, since thou art so fond of it.”
epnLk TIL that the Prohibition Party still exists, has run a candidate for president in every US election since 1872, and is thus the longest-lived political party in the US after the Republicans and Democrats