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

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kDdm TIL In 1989, the Soviet Union traded PepsiCo seventeen submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer for almost $3 billion worth of Pepsi, making PepsiCo the sixth most powerful military at the time.
nWkpY TIL In 1982, Cartoonist Gary Larson invented the name "Thagomizer" (The four spikes at the end of the tail on a Stegosarus Dinosaur) as a joke in his comic strip The Far Side, and it was gradually adopted as an informal term sometimes used within scientific circles, research, and education.
8eP1Z TIL about the Tailorbird, a songbird from the Asian tropics that uses its pointed beak to sew nests with large leaves using plant fiber as thread
N5jb TIL that spiked dog collars were invented in ancient Greece and were originally designed to protect the dogs throat from wolf attacks
EgYkw TIL that ciabatta is not a long-established, traditional Italian bread. It was invented in 1982, largely as a response to the popularity of French baguettes.