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TIL Actress Anne Dudek played characters in both “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” where she gets dumped on her birthday a total of three times. Once by Mike (Paul Rudd, Friends) and twice by Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor, HIMYM)

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