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

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grWmW TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.
WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet
gGOy TIL that simply being 7'0 or taller nets you a 17% chance of being an NBA player.
gRkD TIL that there are more fried chicken restaurants in South Korea than there are McDonald’s restaurants worldwide
XE676 TIL prison inmates in Ohio made a computer hidden in the ceiling, wich was connected to the prisons network