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TIL the Monopoly guy has an actual name: Milburn Pennybags.

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D17gY TIL that the character of Ann Veal, George-Michael Bluth's girlfriend, on "Arrested Development" was meant to be played by a different actress in each episode, but it was decided that Mae Whitman would be the permanent actress because she made "the whole not-memorable thing work"
ByKL TIL that ALL restaurants (11) from Season 2 of Kitchen Nightmares are Closed. And 43 of 75 Restaurants from the show are Closed.
Wk4no TIL that during WW2 in US occupied Aachen, an OSS agent assessed that the US installed mayor was planning to form a dictatorship. The agent leaked the information to the press and the mayor, whose identity was secret, was killed by an SS commando team which parachuted from a captured American B-17.
v1KKD TIL an episode of Mythbusters where the myth of a sugary cereal's box being more healthy than the cereal itself was was tested but never aired. This was due to the fact that the lab mice that were fed the cereal box wound up eating each other during filming.
kOyl1 TIL Napoleon Bonaparte wanted a way to communicate silently in the dark, and that's how braille was invented.