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TIL There is only one U.S. state capital without a McDonald’s: Montpelier, Vermont

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OoWwe TIL the movie The Wolf of Wall Street was funded by money stolen from the Malaysian people by its corrupt Prime Minister.
PYvpL TIL the Pharma company Allergan gave a number of their patents to a Native American tribe (and licensed the patents back to themselves) so that the tribe could asset "sovereign immunity" and prevent the patents from being invalidated.
LmQp TIL of the Cathedral Effect. When ceiling height is conspicuously low or high it can promote different kinds of thinking, with higher ceilings promote abstract thinking and creativity and lower ceilings promoting concrete and detail-oriented thinking.
0d94v TIL about the case of Doe vs Moe in which a man sued his ex-girlfriend for negligence after she “landed awkwardly on the plaintiff [during sex] thereby causing him to suffer a penile fracture”. He lost.
XnYR TIL in 2007, the Israeli Ambassador to El Salvador was recalled after being found outside the Israeli Embassy drunk, hands tied, and wearing only bondage gear. The police only discovered his identity after removing the ball gag from his mouth.