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TIL according to Matt Groening, FOX was never supportive of Futurama, as they moved the show around from time slot to time slot unpredictably for four years, which resulted in poor ratings and its cancellation in 2003. This move left many Futurama fans and production crew shocked and angry.

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KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
kJJjd TIL A Black Woman Attempted to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. She was later diagnosed with Schizophrenia.
OG9yL TIL that the Filet-O-Fish was invented by Lou Groen in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood due to the practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays. His Filet-O-Fish and Ray Kroc’s “Hula Burger” (pineapple with cheese on a bun) competed for sales every Friday and Groen’s creation “won hands down.”
8aoMZ TIL in China, the per capita GDP rose from $89 in 1960 to $10,000 today. The life expectancy rose from 43.7 years in 1960 to nearly 80 years today. The country was producing two new billionaires per week in 2017.
AyDw Til that former ruler of panama Manuel Noriega was pen pals with a 10 year old girl from the United States, She originally wrote to him because she liked the general’s hat. This correspondence developed to the point where Noriega invited her family to visit him in Panama.