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Quite a few!

Random noteworthy information:

- Urahara and Yuroichi survived (which means Yushiro, Grimmjow and Nel very likely did, too) their encounter with the Gift Ball Barrier... thing. Yuroichi was offered to take over the Eighth Division, but she refused. Instead, she teaches at the Academy every other week.

- Mashiro wasn't seen again because she was busy protecting the academy and the students during the second invasion, Hollowified the entire time.

- Komamura is "deceased." But really, he's stuck in dog form and unable to speak the human language. He lives on a hillside and everyone respects his desire to be left alone.

- Everybody knows what happened to Izuru thanks to reports issued after the end of the war. He is considered "dead" from a technical standpoint, but Mayuri intervened and saved his life with emergency, non-consensual surgery. The reason he had his jacket open during his fight with the Lille Flamingos is because he had to allow the hole to be open to dissipate heat. Sometime afterwards, this problem was corrected so he can wear shirts normally but he still has the giant hole in his body.

- The current Seventh Division Lieutenant is Iemura Yasochika (the former Third Seat of the Fourth Division).

- Lisa has no idea who to choose as a Lieutenant for her Division. Yasochika, Nanao, Okikiba, Yumichika, Hanataro and Akon were all people she thought about picking, but didn't for different reasons.

- Nanao is literally skilled in nothing BUT Kido. She forsake the other three basic skills, focusing solely on Kido. When she said she made the rank of Lieutenant with her skill in Kido alone, she wasn't exaggerating one bit. She likely would have joined the Kido Corps as a result, but Lisa suggested otherwise.

- Kiyone is skilled in Kido and helped tend to Ukitake, hence her promotion to Fourth Division Lieutenant.

- Nobody but Hisagi was surprised when Rukia and Renji announced their wedding, lmao.

- Official historical records state that the Royal Guard defended the Soul King and repelled the Wandenreich's invasion rather than the Gotei 13.

- The Shino Academy takes six years to complete the courses for most students. Additionally, last-year students are inducted into the Gotei 13 as apprentices where they have to perform tasks and duties of Shinigami to get experience for when they officially join; basically, they're interns. (This is what Ichika, Renji and Rukia's daughter, is mentioned to be during the epilogue chapter of Bleach.) This was done as a means to supplement the heavy losses each Division suffered during the war.

- Shino (the lily pad wearing girl from early Thousand Year Blood War Arc chapters) has the last name Madarame. There is no confirmation as to whether she and Ikkaku are related. It's most likely a situation similar to Kenpachi Zaraki; the name is adopted from the district of Rukongai rather than a family name.

- Rikichi (Renji's admirer from the Soul Society arc) and Ryunosuke (the kid Shino bullies) share the same last name. They are suggested to be brothers.

I've only read a couple of chapters/segments, so there's probably a lot more info too.