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TIL As one of the largest real estate owner’s in the world, McDonald’s earns the majority of it’s profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.

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ADxkg TIL about the BOKA Vanguard, is the world’s largest semi-submersible heavy lift ship and is typically used to lift offshore oil and gas structures. These pictures have to be seen to be believed as she “picks up” the cruise ship, Carnival Vista.
D1YYY TIL: In 1766–1769, Jeanne Baret was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. During most of the trip, she was disguised as a man.
EWnW TIL that a feminist dressed up as a man for 18 months and discovered for herself that women have more privilege than men
ZpJjQ TIL the Vietnam War is known in Vietnam as the American War
kJx8m TIL for 358 years mathematicians attempted to solve an equation scribbled in the margin of a text book with a note they had a proof but was "too large to fit in the margin". It's still debated today whether Fermat had a solution in 1637 or wrote that just to entice other mathematicians