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TIL that McDonald's major revenue does not come from selling burgers but from their real estate. McDonald Corporation is a company with $40 billion dollars’ worth of real estate assets (before taking depreciation into account) and yearly revenues of $9 billion, of which nearly $4 billion in profit.

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