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TIL the cast of FRIENDS entered collective negotiations with Warner Bros.’ before season 3 and all 6 actors agreed to be given the salary of the LEAST paid cast member. They wanted to be a true ensemble and everyone featured equally. Near the end of the series they were all paid $1 million/episode.

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J5Nm TIL there is a 42 kilobyte “zip bomb” which will extract itself to 4.5 Petabytes
wLNo7 TIL ”Days of our lives” is one of the longest running soap operas, spanning over seven decades of regular screenings with almost 14k episodes (and counting). Some actors have appeared as different characters and some who died in real life still appear years later in flashbacks with unused footage.
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Ad7g TIL that we get a runny nose when we cry because we get actual tears in the nose via the nasolacrimal duct.
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