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TIL McDonalds invested in Chipotle in 1998, and by 2005 owned 90% of the restaurants.

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7r5YL TIL that the most successful hunter in the animal kingdom is the dragon fly which catches 95% of the prey it pursues (compared to owls, hawks, and falcons 25% success rate). This is due to an impressive suite of evolved adaptations that have remained largely unchanged since the Permian age.
MLBW TIL the town Fucking, Austria’s only reported crime was theft of many Fucking road signs. In ‘05 they were replaced with antitheft ones & CCTV cameras to deter tourists filming sex there. PoliceChief:“We wont stand for Fucking signs being removed. It may be amusing…but Fuckings simply Fucking to us”
QgoL TIL that Moammar Gadhafi had an odd obsession with Condoleeza Rice, once gaving her a videotape of her meetings with various leaders, set to specially composed music entitled “Black Flower in the White House”. She said later that “It was weird, but at least it wasn’t raunchy”.
prlZ TIL 2/3 of Shakespeare sonnets have rhymes that do not work in modern English
A86a TIL an Irish High King Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill defeated the Vikings of Dublin after a three day siege of Dublin city, the Vikings surrendered, and the King then freed all slaves in the city