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TIL McDonalds makes a majority of its money by collecting rent.

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X0vDj TIL about the "Judas Wolf technique". This involves capturing a wolf in a net and putting a radio collar on it to lead government-contracted shooters back to its pack so they can be killed.
gMRvb TIL a 1991 New York Supreme Court case found that “as a matter of law”, a house which had been sold was officially considered haunted. The owners had sold the house without disclosing they believed it to be haunted and had advertised it as such, lowering the property value.
QDpL TIL the anti-piracy group responsible for the ad on all your DVDs was sued for stealing the theme song.
8eKkK TIL Einstein initially rejected the Big Bang theory, and proposed an alternative theory of his own for the origins of the universe.
Z8Myv TIL that studies have found having polling places in churches tend to lead to more conservative voting results and having polling places in schools yields more liberal voting results