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TIL There's been a debate about Rachel from Friends' last name for decades. Credits and promotional material have it as "Green", but in the show it was ALWAYS reliably spelled as "Greene".

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16KdW TIL Joseph D. Kucan, known for portraying Kane in the Command & Conquer series, has been cited as the "longest recurring actor in any video game franchise", despite being initially hired only for directing the voice talent.
ZkgY TIL that during WWII, the CIA put out the “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” which described ways that ordinary citizens could sabotage the Nazis by doing things such as “holding conferences when there is more critical work” and “issuing 2 train tickets for the same seat to create an argument”.
XENXE TIL at 18 years old Qudsia Begum gave a speech at her husband's funeral convincing the male claimants to acknowledge her daughter as heir to Bhopal and herself as regent, starting a female Islamic dynasty in Bhopal that lasted 107 years
Y7P5B TIL that only the actors and characters for The Skipper, Gilligan and the Howells were in the Pilot episode; Mary Ann, Ginger and The Professor had different actors and characters when the show aired.
Kdy4 TIL the Saguaro Cactus takes 75 years to grow its first “arm;” and a Saguaro that dies this year has, on average, been around since before the Civil War.