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TIL due to the always uncertain future of Futurama, there has been three designated series finales.

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awgXN TIL it only takes 42 seconds to grill a McDonald's hamburger patty on a double-sided grill. So technically no one has a job "flipping" burgers at McDonald's.
P1O5E TIL about penitentes, spikes of snow that typically form in high-altitude areas. They can get as tall as 20 feet in the right conditions and are known to be very hard to break.
v1rVB TIL about Hanoi Hannah, a Vietnamese radio personality who read the names of GIs that were KIA directly from the Stars and Stripes newspaper, and played popular anti-war songs to incite homesickness, attempting to persuade US GIs to go home during the Vietnam War.
6EKdX TIL that “elevator music” and “hold music” had its beginnings in WWI when an Army Major General, George Owen Squier, invented a way to transmit music from phonograph records, long distance over electrical power lines. This invention led him to start the Muzak company.
GAZ5J TIL that in 546 BC, city-states of Argos and Sparta had a dispute on a piece of land. To settle the issue, They picked 300 of their best men and met in battle, 2 Argive soldiers were left standing at the end and claimed victory, However a Spartan was still alive and claimed victory which led to war