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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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6E688 TIL about an experimental social movement created by high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. It quickly got out of control and he had to stop it. There was even a resistance movement that had formed.
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