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TIL McDonald's is one of the largest owners of real estate in the world and it earns the majority of its profits from collecting rent, not from selling food.

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Dw6P TIL That for $25,000 you can go on a three weeks cruise to the North Pole on the Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory
law5 TIL the first recorded mention of whiskey is from an Irishman in 1405 dying of alcohol poisoning during Christmas.
mx1ep TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines.
8epvV TIL that Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the Phonautograph, the earliest known device for recording sound and patented it on March 4th 1857, a full 20 years before Thomas Edison created the Phonograph.
9YZyr TIL Frigidaire, a well known kitchen and laundry appliance manufacturer, made M2 .50 caliber aircraft machine guns (and many other military items) for the Allied war effort.