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1) Jerry Seinfeld is the richest on the show with a whopping $950 million.
2) The show is famous for being a show about nothing (peoples normal life in a show)
3) This show was filmed in New York, New York City, America

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Though Seinfeld has famously earned the reputation of being a "show about nothing," the idea behind the series-which premiered on July 5, 1989-was anything but. Here are some things you might not know about the legendary sitcom.

The original concept for Seinfeld wasn't for an ongoing series, but a one-off, 90-minute special titled "Stand Up that was set to run for one night only in Saturday Night Live's time slot.

During a 2014 Reddit AMA, Jerry Seinfeld admitted that both he and co-creator Larry David were surprised by how Seinfeld earned its "show about nothing" moniker: "The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material,'" Seinfeld explained. "The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that."

When asked about when he first met Larry David during a 2014 Reddit AMA, Seinfeld gave a surprising answer and admitted that even David didn't know this story:

"I actually was eavesdropping on him talking to another comedian, and I wasn't even in comedy yet. But he was leaning on my car in front of the Improv on 9th Ave and 44th Street, and this would be probably 1975. That was the first time I ever saw him. But we didn't talk. But him and this other comedian were leaning on the fender of my car, and I knew that they were real comedians, and I was still just flirting with it."

They finally spoke at a bar a few years later, and found they couldn't stop talking: "We were both obsessed with the smallest possible issue."

That slap bass and those mouth pops and sighs may have sounded like they were all cut from the same track, but composer Jonathan Wolff made each one individually, basing them around Seinfeld's opening monologue for the week.

"I would build each monologue based on this list, this computer printout of his voice and what he was saying, how long it was," Wolff told Vice in 2015. "It was a little bit more labor-intensive than most other shows because I had to re-do that opening every time. But it was worth it. He was creating new material. As long as he's creating new material, I'll do the same thing, and I will create along with him."

Known as Monk's on the show, the restaurant seen in the shot is actually a diner called Tom's Restaurant that is located on Broadway and West 112th Street in New York City. Before Seinfeld, it gained fame as the basis of the 1981 Suzanne Vega song, "Tom's Diner."

In the pilot episode, Kramer is called Kessler, as the real Kramer-Larry David's former neighbor, Kenny Kramer-was hesitant to let his name be used for the show. Eventually, the "real" Kramer relented. Though he says he was paid just $1000 for the use of his name in the series, Kramer has since profited in other ways, namely with his Kramer's Reality Tour bus tour (which is now in its 22nd year).

For the entire run of the nine-season series, Richards wore two identical pairs of black Doc Marten boots.

Though it's hard to imagine Seinfeld without Jason Alexander as George Costanza, Seinfeld admitted that Alexander was not his first choice for the part. In an interview with Access Hollywood, Seinfeld said that he "begged" fellow comedian Jake Johannsen to take the part, but Johannsen refused.

For years, it was rumored that Steve Buscemi was one of many soon-to-be-successful actors who unsuccessfully auditioned for Seinfeld (David Alan Grier was also in the mix, as was David Letterman's bandleader Paul Shaffer, who said in his autobiography that his resemblance to Larry David-upon whom George is based-was what made him of interest to the show's creators). But on a 2015 episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Buscemi addressed the rumor in his typical good-natured way: "I never did [the audition] and I don't know how to correct it because I don't know how the Internet works."

Jason Alexander loved the script for Seinfeld, which is what made him question the show's potential to be successful. "From the moment I saw the script I thought it would be the most brilliant thing I'd ever be part of, and that it would not run for even a day," Alexander told Deseret News in 1992. "Because the audience for this show is me, and I don't watch TV ... But I don't think anyone is more surprised by the success of [ Seinfeld] than we are, because we thought, 'Oh, we'll amuse ourselves, and that'll be it. We'll have a videotape at the end of it that we could play at parties.'"

In all of Seinfeld' s 172 episodes, there's only one in which Alexander doesn't appear-the season three episode, "The Pen," which has Jerry and Elaine visiting Jerry's parents in Florida (and Jerry getting an astronaut pen from their neighbor). Nervous that being written out of the episode meant that he could be written out of the show, Alexander warned Larry David that "if you do it again, do it permanently."

Like Kramer, George Costanza was (partially) named after a real person: Jerry's former friend Michael Costanza, who sued Seinfeld, David, and NBC for $100 million, claiming that the series had violated his privacy. The court sided with the show's creators, who have always maintained that George is based on co-creator Larry David. In his book, The Real Seinfeld (As Told by the Real Costanza), Costanza noted: "George is bald. I am bald. George is stocky. I am stocky. George and I both went to Queens College with Jerry. George's high-school teacher nicknamed him 'Can't stand ya.' So did mine. George had a thing about bathrooms and parking spaces. So do I."

Originally, the main female character was supposed to be Claire, a waitress at the coffee shop who would offer Jerry and George advice with their coffee. "[W]hen we shot the pilot, I was the girl in Seinfeld," Lee Garlington, the actress who played Claire in the pilot, told HuffPo. "They didn't pick up my contract." There are differing accounts as to why this happened. Jason Alexander said it was because Garlington rewrote all of her lines; while Seinfeld confirmed that she did indeed give Larry David a rewrite, he swears that that's not the reason she was replaced, saying they just needed "a character who was a little more involved."

In a making-of documentary on the season one DVD, Julia Louis-Dreyfus admits that she wasn't even aware of the pilot until 2004-and has no plans to watch it. Garlington can relate: "I think I watched two episodes in 10 years just because I had friends on it or something," she said. "It didn't bother me the first five years. [ Laughs] But the second five years drove me nuts. I don't know why."

Rosie O'Donnell auditioned for the part of Elaine at the behest of Larry David; the two were old friends, having come up on the standup comedy scene together. Mariska Hargitay, Patricia Heaton, Amy Yasbeck, and Megan Mullally were also among the other actresses considered for the part.

In the series, Elaine's father is a noted author, Alton Benes. The character was based on Revolutionary Road novelist Richard Yates, the father of Larry David's own ex, Monica Yates (who really did intimidate David). In the series, Alton was played by legendary tough guy Lawrence Tierney (who played Joe in Reservoir Dogs) in the season two episode "The Jacket" (which was based on David's real night out with Yates). Though it was intended to be a recurring role, Tierney-like his on-screen counterpart-really did terrify the cast, particularly when Seinfeld discovered that he had stolen a butcher knife from the set, and hid it under his jacket. "Lawrence Tierney scared the living crap out of all of us," Alexander admitted. And so, Alton Benes made just a single appearance on the show.

Larry David made sure that the cast and crew were aware of his "no hugging, no learning" motto for the show, which meant that they should avoid any sort of sentimentality or situations that would force the characters to change or grow. "A lot of people don't understand that Seinfeld is a dark show," David said. "If you examine the premises, terrible things happen to people. They lose jobs; somebody breaks up with a stroke victim; somebody's told they need a nose job. That's my sensibility."

Al Yeganeh, the real soup store owner upon whom The Soup Nazi is based, was not pleased with his depiction in the series, as is evident from the CNN interview above, where he calls Seinfeld "a clown" whose use of "the N word-the Nazi word-is disgraceful." When the interviewer countered that "you're famous because of him," Yeganeh insisted "No. He got fame through me. I made him famous." Unsurprisingly, Seinfeld was banned from Yeganeh's restaurant (which didn't stop the comedian from making a surprise appearance when the soup stall reopened in 2010).

Some Seinfeld storylines that got cut: Frank Costanza gets into medical marijuana, a woman called "The Prompter" who leaves out key details in stories, the Soup Nazi being an actual Nazi, Kramer fixing up human skeletons for museums, and the whole gang goes to Mexico but does-wait for it-nothing.

Two years before Dumb & Dumber made them two of Hollywood's reigning kings of comedy, Peter and Bobby Farrelly wrote an episode of Seinfeld. The There's Something About Mary co-creators wrote "The Virgin" in season four, in which Jerry dates Marla the virgin ('s Jane Leeves) and Elaine attempts to give her an education in sex in the 1990s.

"[The contest lasted] two days. Maybe three," Larry David told New York Magazine." I just remember it didn't last very long. I was surprised at how quickly it ended. I won handily, yes." He didn't mention his idea to base a plotline on the real-life incident for a long time, believing that Seinfeld would shoot it down. When he finally pitched it, Jerry loved it-and to everyone's surprise, the studio execs did, too.

Though it may have seemed as if no topic was off-limits for Seinfeld's creators (remember "The Contest"?), an episode that revolved around the ease with which one could buy a handgun was eventually dumped. Titled "The Bet," it was written for the show's second season; "We started making it and stopped in the middle and said 'this doesn't work,'" Seinfeld said during an AMA. "We did the read-through and then canceled it. A lot of other stuff happened, but trying to make that funny ended up being no fun." The episode was replaced with "The Phone Message."

Nearly 20 years after Susan Ross, George's fiancée, was killed off in the seventh season, Jason Alexander revealed what prompted that particularly morbid storyline. In an interview with Howard Stern, Alexander admitted that, "I couldn't figure out how to play off of [Heidi Swedberg]. Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring. And she would do something, and I would go, 'OK, I see what she's going to do-I'm going to adjust to her.' And I'd adjust, and then it would change." Then it was Louis-Dreyfus's turn to share some scenes with Hedberg. "They go, 'You know what? It's f***ing impossible. It's impossible,'" Alexander continued. "And Julia actually said, 'Don't you want to just kill her?' And Larry went, 'Ka-bang!'" And that was that.

Seinfeld himself was on hand in 2004 to donate the iconic piece of television fashion history to the National Museum of American History for display alongside pop culture artifacts such as Mr. Rogers' sweater and the Sesame Street sign. Sadly, the pirate garb isn't currently on display .

During George's tenure with the Yankees organization, legendary team owner George Steinbrenner was a recurring character ... except we never saw his face and he was voiced by Larry David. But Steinbrenner proved to be a good sport when he agreed to film some scenes for the show, in which he proposes that he and Elaine attend George's wedding together. Unfortunately, the cameo never aired.

In "The Bizarro Jerry," Jerry has a girlfriend with hands that he finds rather masculine. When shown in close shots, the hands really are man hands. They were supplied by actor James Rekart, with whom Seinfeld took acting classes. Rekart still proudly flaunts his man-hands status in his Twitter profile .

It's the episode where Jerry can't remember his girlfriend's name, but knows that it rhymes with a female body part. After discussing the episode with a female colleague, Jerold Mackenzie, then an executive at Milwaukee's Miller Brewing, was fired for sexual harassment. Mackenzie, in turn, counter-sued-and was awarded $26.6 million. (A verdict which was overturned on appeal.)

Seinfeld writer Spike Feresten told HuffPo that Larry David was not a fan of the eighth season episode "The Little Kicks," in which Elaine ... dances (for lack of a better term). He only got approval on the storyline after David had left, but then became concerned that it might be a big mistake.

"I remember walking through at rehearsal," Feresten said. "[Writer-producer] Jennifer Crittenden pulled me aside after Julia did the dance for the first time and said, 'Are you sure about this? Are you sure you're not ruining Julia Louis-Dreyfus's career?' 'No, I'm not.' That's the year she won an Emmy." Sweet, fancy Moses!

Season 9's backwards episode, "The Betrayal," is based on a Harold Pinter play of the same name, which utilizes a similarly nonlinear narrative device. And also explains why Sue-Ellen Mishkie's fiancé's name is Pinter.

In a 1998 episode, Elaine is upset that she doesn't understand the punchline of a New Yorker cartoon and tries to get her own published. Fourteen years later, The New Yorker actually published their own version of their cartoon and invited readers to submit their captions.

When asked about his least favorite episode of the series on Watch What Happens: Live, Seinfeld admitted that it was "The Alternate Side," in which Jerry's car is stolen, George blocks traffic during a Woody Allen film shoot, and Kramer gets fired before he ever gets to utter his now-famous line: "These pretzels are making me thirsty!"

Seinfeld's favorite show moment? "George pulling out the golf ball at the end of the marine biologist episode," he told Uproxx. "That's my favorite moment from the entire series.

Writer Dan O'Keefe truly celebrated Festivus with his family, complete with feats of strength and the airing of grievances. "It was entirely more peculiar than on the show," O'Keefe told The New York Times in 2004. "There was a clock in a bag." He didn't know why.

Elizabeth Sheridan, who played Jerry's mom, wrote a book called Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life with James Dean, about the year she spent dating James Dean - before he hit it big in Hollywood.

During the same Reddit AMA, Seinfeld cited Newman as his favorite supporting character. " I mean, when I got to have a real evil nemesis like Superman would have, that was a dream come true for me," he said. "There's no superhero that doesn't have an evil nemesis, and I got to have one. And I love that nobody ever asks 'Why didn't you like Newman?'"

Back in 1999, more than a year after the Seinfeld finale had aired, the media was abuzz with what would be the series's first spinoff: The Jackie Chiles Show. Phil Morris, who made a handful of appearances on the series as a fast-talking, Johnnie Cochran-like lawyer, was working with Seinfeld and David on the pitch, which would find him as the sole black lawyer in an all-white firm. At some point, plans apparently fell apart.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. But when Seinfeld turned down the chance to earn $5 million per episode-a grand total of $110 million-to come back for a tenth season, the network finally got that he wasn't kidding around.

Seinfeld has made no secret about his love of the number nine. In an interview with Vanity Fair about the show's end, he explained that part of the reason for his decision to end at nine seasons was because: "Nine is cool. When I was thinking about quitting the show, I thought, nine. People said, 'Ten-why not 10?' But 10 is lame. Nine is my number. And then I found out that nine in numerology means completion."

It might take binge-watching the series to realize that the very first conversation Jerry and George have in the pilot (which you can see in the clip above) and their last conversation in the finale are about a poorly-placed button, and are almost verbatim.

Prior to the taping of every show, the four main cast members would gather behind the set and participate in the "circle of power." Jason Alexander told Variety it was " nothing more than the four of us kind of huddling up and going, 'have a good show.'"

Before the final show, Jerry took on a more serious tone than usual, and, according to Alexander, said, "For the rest of our lives when anybody thinks of one of us, they will think of the four of us, and I can't think of any people that I would rather have that be true of."

Alexander continued, "And as we all began to weep over the fact that Jerry had said that, that's when they started calling our names, and we had to go out and pretend that everything's just hunky dory."

Terms were not disclosed, but we do know that Hulu paid $130 million for the domestic rights to Seinfeld for a six-year run, which came to an end on June 23, 2021. In September 2019, shortly after it lost the rights to always-popular NBC hits Friends and The Office, Netflix signed a deal to acquire the global rights to Seinfeld. It's expected to hit the streamer in September 2021.
A version of this story ran in 2016; it has been updated for 2021.

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1) Kareem played 20 seasons in national basketball.
2) He is a six time NBA champion and MVP.
3) He was number 33 on all of his teams.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born April 16, 1947, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American collegiate and professional basketball player who, as a 7-foot 2-inch- (2.18-metre-) tall centre, dominated the game throughout the 1970s and early '80s.
(Read Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Britannica essay on the New York Rens.)
Alcindor played for Power Memorial Academy on the varsity for four years, and his total of 2,067 points set a New York City high-school record (that has since been broken). His offensive skill was so developed coming out of high school that the collegiate basketball rules committee, fearing he would be able to score at will, made dunking illegal prior to his enrollment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in 1965. Despite the new rule, he set a UCLA scoring record with 56 points in his first game. Playing for renowned coach John Wooden, Alcindor helped lead UCLA to three National Collegiate Athletic Association championships (1967-69), and during his stay at UCLA the team lost only two games. The no-dunking rule was rescinded in the years after Alcindor graduated.

Alcindor joined the National Basketball Association (NBA) Milwaukee Bucks for the 1969-70 season and was named Rookie of the Year. In 1970-71 the Bucks won the NBA championship, and Alcindor led the league in scoring (2,596 points) and points-per-game average (31.7), as he did in 1971-72 (2,822 points; 34.8). Having converted to Islam while at UCLA, Alcindor took the Arabic name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971. In 1975 he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, who won the NBA championship in 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988. In 1984 he surpassed Wilt Chamberlain 's career scoring total of 31,419 points.

Although Abdul-Jabbar lacked the physical strength of NBA centres Chamberlain and Willis Reed, he brought an excellent shooting touch to the position and a wide range of graceful post moves, including his sweeping, nearly indefensible sky hook. He also was an outstanding passer. Abdul-Jabbar retired at the end of the 1988-89 season, having been voted NBA Most Valuable Player a record six times. By the end of his extraordinarily long career, he had set NBA records for most points (38,387; since broken by LeBron James), most field goals made (15,837), and most minutes played (57,446). At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar had also amassed the most blocked shots in league history (3,189; since broken by Hakeem Olajuwon and Dikembe Mutombo) and the third most career rebounds (17,440). He was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history in 1996.

Away from the basketball court, Abdul-Jabbar pursued interests in acting and writing. He appeared on television and in a handful of films, including a memorable turn as a copilot in the comedy Airplane! (1980). His autobiography, Giant Steps, was published in 1983. His writings on the African American experience also included Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African-American Achievement (1996; with Alan Steinberg), Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes (2004; with Anthony Walton), On the Shoulders of Giants: My Personal Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance (2007; with Raymond Obstfeld), and the children's book What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors (2012; with Obstfeld). In addition, he wrote Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship on and off the Court (2017) as well as a mystery series (with Anna Waterhouse) about Sherlock Holmes's older brother, Mycroft: Mycroft Holmes (2015), Mycroft and Sherlock (2018), and Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage (2019). Abdul-Jabbar also did some basketball coaching and consulting, including a stint on the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. In 2016 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American collegiate and professional basketball player who dominated the game in the 1970s and early '80s. He set numerous NBA records during his 20-year career, including most field goals made (15,837), most minutes played (57,446), and most MVP awards won (6).

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1) Arnold Schwarzenegger was Mr. Universe, a strong man title.
2) He was most famous/became famous from him being a Hollywood actor.
3) He is 6ft 2in tall.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is easily one of the most famous actors in the world. He was a box-office powerhouse in the 80s and 90s, starring in a number of hit action films that still delight fans today.

He's enjoyed a long career as an athlete, an actor, and a politician. However, despite his mega-star status, we're willing to bet there's a lot you don't know about the Austrian Oak.

He Won a Golden Globe For One of His First Roles

Schwarzenegger landed a handful of supporting roles throughout the 1970s as his acting career was building up steam. One of those roles was Joe Santo, a bodybuilder training for the Mr. Universe competition, in the Jeff Bridges film Stay Hungry.

Schwarzenegger was clearly a natural choice for the part, as he was essentially a real-life Joe Santo, but he threw himself into the role anyway. He lost a significant amount of weight for the film, which wound up causing him some problems in his bodybuilding career, but he won a Golden Globe for his performance.

He's the Youngest Mr. Universe In History

Before he was traveling through time as a relentless cyborg, battling villainous sorcerers and aliens, Schwarzenegger was a champion bodybuilder. (We know, it's hard to believe.) He won the annual Mr. Universe competition at age 20, becoming the youngest person ever to do so.

He didn't rest on his considerably muscular laurels after that record-breaking win, either. Schwarzenegger continued to compete, and went on to win the Mr. Universe title a staggering four more times before retiring from bodybuilding at age 33 in 1980.

He Had a Legendary Career as a Bodybuilder

Schwarzenegger always dreamed to move to the United States and become a famous actor, and he figured the best way for a poor Austrian kid like him to do that was to become a champion bodybuilder. It's hard to argue with his results.

In addition to his history-making Mr. Universe title at age 20, Schwarzenegger also thoroughly dominated the Mr. Olympia competition. He won the Mr. Olympia title 7 times, nabbing his first victory at age 23, making him the youngest champion ever.

He had a Successful Bricklaying Business

Before he became a legendary bodybuilder and world-famous actor, Schwarzenegger was already a successful businessman. He began his rags-to-riches journey in just about the most unlikely place imaginable - by starting a bricklaying business in California. We suppose if you're going to hire someone to lay bricks, it might as well be Arnold.

Schwarzenegger started the business in 1968, when he was only 21 and had just moved to the United States. His partner in the venture was Franco Columbo, a fellow bodybuilder whom Schwarzenegger eventually dethroned in the Mr. Olympia competition. The business was remarkably successful, owing in part to Schwarzenegger's well-known business savvy and a rise in demand for building materials following the San Fernando earthquake in 1971.

He Was the Governor of California

After acting in Hollywood for three decades, Schwarzenegger decided to try his hand at running the state that had become his home. He served as the 38 th governor of California, after Governor Gray Davis was recalled in a special election in 2003.

Schwarzenegger won the election by a massive margin of 1.3 million votes. He won his re-election by an almost identical margin. To date, Schwarzenegger is only the second foreign-born governor of CA, serving from 2003 to 2011.

He Had a Difficult Home Life

Schwarzenegger's desire to become a self-made man and leave his home country of Austria might have had something to do with the fact that things at home were very strained. He had a terrible relationship with his father, an Austrian police chief who had sided with Germany in World War II and regularly abused Arnold.

Part of his father's overbearing nature was due to the fact that he didn't believe Arnold was his biological son, favoring Arnold's older brother Meinhard. When Schwarzenegger finally left Austria for America, he didn't look back. Although he maintained a close relationship with his mother, he didn't attend his father's funeral, nor his brother Meinhard's.

He Was Originally a Soccer Player

Although he was always athletic, Schwarzenegger wasn't immediately drawn to weightlifting. Much like the rest of us, Arnold got his start in sports by playing soccer, mostly to try and impress his overbearing father. According to him, he was in shape, but pretty skinny.

Arnold's soccer coach took him and his team to do some weight training at a local gym when Arnold was 14 or 15. From that moment on, Schwarzenegger was hooked. He gave up soccer and began pursuing a career as a professional bodybuilder.

His First Film is a Camp Classic

Schwarzenegger's first foray into the world of film was the title role in the legendary B-movie Hercules in New York (1969). In the film, Hercules becomes bored with life on Mount Olympus and travels to New York City to engage in delightful hijinks, which include fighting a bear in Central Park and chasing a car full of mobsters in an actual chariot.

Schwarzenegger had only recently learned English, and his accent was so thick that the producers of the film were worried nobody would be able to understand him. So, his voice was dubbed over by another actor for the film's release. You can find the film now with Arnold's original voice track.

He Was Influenced by Other Athletes-Turned-Actors

Schwarzenegger is a smart guy, but he didn't come up with his success plan of segueing a bodybuilding career into a Hollywood career on his own. He claims he was heavily influenced by athletes-turned-actors who had followed a similar path, including Johnny Weissmuller, who famously played Tarzan in a series of films in the 40s and 50s.

Schwarzenegger credits seeing these movies as a kid with his initial inspiration to come to America as a hulking metahuman and become an action-adventure star. He was particularly inspired by Steve Reeves, a fellow Mr. Universe champion who went on to a successful acting career.

He Became a Competitive Bodybuilder at Age 17

Schwarzenegger became so obsessed with working out and sculpting a bodybuilder's physique that he made sure he lifted every single day. Unfortunately, his local gym wasn't open on the weekends, but he didn't let that stop him.

Arnold would actually break into the gym when it was closed, just so he could get in his crucial Saturday and Sunday workouts. He trained this way for several years as a young teenager before he finally went pro, officially beginning his career as a competitive bodybuilder at age 17.

He Helped Care for His Nephew

Despite their estranged relationship, Schwarzenegger didn't turn his back on his brother's family when Meinhard was tragically killed in a car accident. Schwarzenegger paid for his brother's then 3-year-old son Patrick's entire education, and later provided support for him to immigrate to America.

Patrick got a law degree from the University of Southern California School of Law, and worked for both Sony Music and the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. He has since become a partner in a California-based law firm, and acted as an advisor to his uncle when Schwarzenegger briefly hosted The Celebrity Apprentice.

He Served in the Austrian Army

Like all Austrian men, Schwarzenegger was required to devote one year of his life to military service when he turned 18. At least, we assume it's required of all male citizens. They may have just looked into the future, seen Arnold in Commando, and decided to invent the rule just for him.

Unfortunately, that year of service happened to interfere with Schwarzenegger's bodybuilding career, which was just beginning to get off the ground. He went AWOL to compete in a bodybuilding competition and was thrown in military jail for a week as a result.

He Lived With His Bodybuilding Coach's Family

Schwarzenegger found little love and support in his own household, but he found a sort of surrogate family when he moved in with his bodybuilding coach's family in London. His coach, Charles Bennett, had been a judge at Schwarzenegger's first Mr. Universe competition, and although Arnold didn't win, Bennett saw potential in him and offered to be his coach.

Schwarzenegger's family had always been poor, so consequently he didn't have any money to pay for room and board while he trained. Bennett moved the 19-year-old Schwarzenegger into his home in London to live with his family while they prepared for Arnold's second Mr. Universe competition.

In addition to getting appropriately swole for the competition, Schwarzenegger began to learn English, of which he had previously spoken very little.

He Moved to America with Nothing

Schwarzenegger grew up extremely poor in post-war Austria. In fact, he can still remember when his family purchased their first refrigerator, because it was such a momentous occasion. However, he was determined to pursue his dream of becoming a successful actor in America.

Schwarzenegger moved to America when he was just 21 years old. He barely spoke any English and had just as much money to his name, but he started training at Gold's Gym in Venice, California to prepare for the Mr. Olympia competition. He befriended a few professional wrestlers during his training, including Superstar Billy Graham.

He Was Told His Name Was Too Long and Confusing

Schwarzenegger had virtually everything going against him when he started his acting career. He was told his body was too muscular, his accent was too heavy, and his name was too confusing for him to ever become a success.

In his first few roles, including Hercules in New York, Schwarzenegger was actually credited as "Arnold Strong." Arnold quickly dropped the cheesy pseudonym and insisted upon using his real name, which turned out to be the right choice - not only did audiences have no trouble pronouncing "Schwarzenegger," it's become synonymous with badass action and is one of the most recognized names in the entire world.

His First Big Hit was a Documentary

Schwarzenegger's first big success was the documentary film Pumping Iron, which documented the training of several bodybuilders for the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition. The documentary is notable for giving an inside look at the world of competitive bodybuilding, and also for featuring future Incredible Hulk star Lou Ferrigno.

Despite purporting to be a "documentary," the film actually dramatized several elements to build up a rivalry between Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno. In fact, the film essentially frames Schwarzenegger as kind of a villain, which technically marks the first time in his career he played a bad guy.

He Did a Number of Guest Spots on TV

Like many actors, Schwarzenegger spent his early career making guest appearances on television in the 1970s. In addition to guest spots on The Streets of San Francisco and The San Pedro Beach Bums, he had a cameo as a handsome masseuse in the TV movie Happy Anniversary and Goodbye with Lucille Ball and Art Carney.

Arnold landed a starring role in the 1980 made-for-TV movie The Jayne Mansfield Story, in which he played Mansfield's husband Mickey Hartigay. Hartigay, the father of Law and Order: SVU star Mariska Hartigay, was also a bodybuilder-turned-actor and former Mr. Universe champion.

His Two Most Famous Roles Were Only Two Years Apart

Audiences in the 1980s had an appetite for action movies, and after a decade and a half of bodybuilding and honing his acting chops, Arnold was ready to deliver. His breakthrough film Conan the Barbarian opened in 1982, which saw him flexing and swinging a sword through his enemies as the titular ruthless barbarian.

Conan the Barbarian was a hit and spawned a sequel, the PG-rated and much less successful Conan the Destroyer, in 1984. But 1984 would still turn out to arguably be the most important year of Schwarzenegger's career, as it saw the of his most iconic film The Terminator, which made him a superstar.

He Wasn't the First Choice for The Terminator

It seems hard to believe now, but Schwarzenegger wasn't James Cameron's first choice to play the Terminator. Cameron originally wanted someone who looked very normal and average, and could disappear into a crowd. He had his eye on Lance Henrikson (who would later play the android Bishop in Cameron's ).

The studio initially wanted Arnold to play the hero Kyle Reese, but Cameron didn't want to cast him. He felt Schwarzenegger was too big, and would dwarf any actor they got to play the Terminator. Cameron changed his mind after meeting Arnold and realizing he'd make a great unstoppable killer robot.

His Home Address in Austria was Retired

When you're as famous as Arnold Schwarzenegger, people will happily retire the address number of your birth house, just like the Chicago Bulls retired Michael Jordan 's jersey. The action star received what we assume was a surprise birthday present from his home country when he turned 60.

The mayor of Thal, Austria, the city in which Schwarzenegger was born, sent Arnold the address plaque of his childhood home for his 60 th birthday, with the message "This belongs to him. No one will ever be assigned that number again." Arnold was actually born in the house.

His Movies Have Grossed Over $4 Billion

Schwarzenegger was one of the biggest stars in the world in the 80s and 90s, cranking out action hits like , Commando, The Running Man, Total Recall, and . All told, his films have grossed over $4 billion worldwide. That's a lot of movie tickets.

The biggest moneymaker of Schwarzenegger's career was Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the sequel to the film that made him a mega star. Terminator 2 netted half a billion dollars at the box office and was the biggest hit of 1991, and is still considered to be one of the best action movies ever made.

He's Played The Terminator 6 Times

Considering the popularity of the time-traveling cyborg assassin in The Terminator and how much of an impact it made on his acting career, it's no surprise that Schwarzenegger has been happy to appear in a number of Terminator sequels and spin-offs.

Schwarzenegger has played some version of the T-800 in five films - The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Genisys, and Terminator Dark Fate. He even showed up as the Terminator in the Guns n' Roses video "You Could Be Mine," which was on the Terminator 2 soundtrack. In the video, the Terminator has apparently been sent back in time to kill Axel Rose.

He Practices Meditation

Despite being a huge movie star, both physically and in terms of stature, Schwarzenegger used to suffer from anxiety. Luckily, the actor found a way to manage it through transcendental meditation. This form of meditation involves sitting quietly and repeating a sound, called a mantra, for 15-20 minutes, twice a day.

According to Schwarzenegger, anxiety used to be a dominating force in his life. He says mediation helps him sort through things and deal with them in a logical and healthy way, as opposed to all at once in a huge chaotic storm.

He Auditioned to Play the Incredible Hulk (And Lost)

While he was still getting his start in Hollywood, one of the roles Schwarzenegger auditioned for was the role of the Marvel Comics character the Incredible Hulk, in the TV series that would ultimately star Bill Bixby as the Hulk's mild-mannered alter ego David Banner.

However, this was one competition in which Schwarzenegger couldn't beat his Pumping Iron rival Lou Ferrigno. Ferrigno won the part over Schwarzenegger, and went on to play the Hulk for five seasons and in five made-for-TV movies. It remains Ferrigno's most well-known performance.

He's a Big Environmental Advocate

In what may come as a surprise to some, considering his on-screen propensity for explosions and wanton destruction, Schwarzenegger is an outspoken environmentalist. During his tenure as Governor of California, he signed the nation's first emissions cap on greenhouse gas, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006.

Schwarzenegger has a well-known affinity for driving giant SUVs, but he's taken steps to make his vehicles more eco-friendly. He converted both of his Humvees so that they no longer run on fossil fuels - one runs on hydrogen, the other runs on biofuels.

He's One of the Most Successful Self-Made Millionaires Ever

Schwarzenegger is one of the most successful self-made millionaires ever. Beginning with a successful bricklaying business, he managed to parlay that into a mail-order business selling exercise equipment and instructional videos.

He then became a champion bodybuilder, which he wrangled into a career in Hollywood, becoming one of the most recognized and highest-paid actors in the world in the 80s and 90s. His net worth was estimated at between $400 and $800 million before his divorce in 2011.

He Was Married to an Award-Winning Journalist

Arnold's ex-wife, Maria Shriver, is a Peabody award winning journalist, and the niece of John F. Kennedy. The couple met in the late 1970s and eventually married in 1986. They have four children together, including Katherine, an author, and Patrick, a model and actor.

Shriver and Schwarzenegger were married for 25 years. She even appears in Arnold's 1993 action-comedy Last Action Hero, playing a fictional version of herself. Ultimately, the couple divorced in 2011, after Schwarzenegger admitted to fathering a child with a former housekeeper.

He Kept a Big Souvenir from Batman & Robin

Who could forget Schwarzenegger's legendary performance as the villainous Mr. Freeze in 1997's Batman & Robin? For his role as the chilling foe, Arnold was paid a whopping $25 million. However, he apparently felt he was owed a little extra for all the terrible ice puns he delivered in the film.

Schwarzenegger adamantly wanted to take home one of the Mr. Freeze costumes he wore in the film. According to an interview with the film's producer, Peter MacGregor-Scott, Arnold had to agree to "rent" the costume out for $1 per year, a fee he has presumably been paying ever since.

He Was a Real-Life Terminator During Filming

Schwarzenegger engaged in some real-life Terminator behavior while filming the sci-fi classic. In the scene wherein the Terminator punches through a car window to hotwire the vehicle and steal it, director James Cameron just told him "action" and they did the scene very quickly.

According to the DVD special features, it wasn't until later that Arnold found out they hadn't had a permit to legally film in the street, so Cameron was trying to get the shot as fast as possible, which meant that the car window he punched through was a real window made of actual glass.

He Didn't Want to Say His Signature Line

When the Terminator told an unsuspecting desk sergeant, "I'll be back," before driving a car through the front wall of the police station, nobody knew the scene would become iconic, or that the simple three-word line of dialogue would become Schwarzenegger's catch phrase throughout much of his career.

However, Arnold initially didn't want to say the line, for two reasons. For one, his accent made saying the word "I'll" difficult, so he wanted to say "I will be back." He also felt it made more sense for his character, insisting that a robot wouldn't speak in contractions.

Despite Schwarzenegger's protests, James Cameron refused to change the line. Arnold delivered it as best he could, and it wound up becoming his trademark, working its way into most of his films. He even wrote it in cement next to his hand prints in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater!

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Ronald Reagan, originally an American actor and politician, became the 40th President of the United States serving from 1981 to 1989. His term saw a restoration of prosperity at home, with the goal of achieving "peace through strength" abroad.

At the end of his two terms in office, Ronald Reagan viewed with satisfaction the achievements of his innovative program known as the Reagan Revolution, which aimed to reinvigorate the American people and reduce their reliance upon Government. He felt he had fulfilled his campaign pledge of 1980 to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism."

On February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films.

From his first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two children, Maureen and Michael. Maureen passed away in 2001. In 1952 he married Nancy Davis, who was also an actress, and they had two children, Patricia Ann and Ronald Prescott.

As president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan became embroiled in disputes over the issue of Communism in the film industry; his political views shifted from liberal to conservative. He toured the country as a television host, becoming a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966 he was elected Governor of California by a margin of a million votes; he was re-elected in 1970.

Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George Bush. Voters troubled by inflation and by the year-long confinement of Americans in Iran swept the Republican ticket into office. Reagan won 489 electoral votes to 49 for President Jimmy Carter.

On January 20, 1981, Reagan took office. Only 69 days later he was shot by a would-be assassin, but quickly recovered and returned to duty. His grace and wit during the dangerous incident caused his popularity to soar.

Dealing skillfully with Congress, Reagan obtained legislation to stimulate economic growth, curb inflation, increase employment, and strengthen national defense. He embarked upon a course of cutting taxes and Government expenditures, refusing to deviate from it when the strengthening of defense forces led to a large deficit.

A renewal of national self-confidence by 1984 helped Reagan and Bush win a second term with an unprecedented number of electoral votes. Their victory turned away Democratic challengers Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.

In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his administration, the Nation was enjoying its longest recorded period of peacetime prosperity without recession or depression.

In foreign policy, Reagan sought to achieve "peace through strength." During his two terms he increased defense spending 35 percent, but sought to improve relations with the Soviet Union. In dramatic meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, he negotiated a treaty that would eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Reagan declared war against international terrorism, sending American bombers against Libya after evidence came out that Libya was involved in an attack on American soldiers in a West Berlin nightclub.

By ordering naval escorts in the Persian Gulf, he maintained the free flow of oil during the Iran-Iraq war. In keeping with the Reagan Doctrine, he gave support to anti-Communist insurgencies in Central America, Asia, and Africa.

Overall, the Reagan years saw a restoration of prosperity, and the goal of peace through strength seemed to be within grasp.

Learn more about Ronald Reagan's spouse, Nancy Davis Reagan.

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1) The mid-engine rear-wheel drive Ferrari f40 was created from 1987 to 1992.
2) There have been 1,311 Ferrari f40 models.
3) The engine the Ferrari uses is the 2.9L twin-turbo V8