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TIL McDonald’s takes drive-thru orders across the country from a centralized call center in California.

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PY8jZ TIL Britain's power stations have to learn television schedules to anticipate when there will be a huge power draw as everyone turns on their electric kettles during a break in a soap opera or sporting event.
rRdw0 TIL Due to the variety of its ecosystems, which include mountains, woods, plains, largely uninhabited territories, streams, rocky coasts, and long sandy beaches, the island of Sardinia has been defined metaphorically as a micro-continent.
XJDR TIL: The word “nice” used to mean “foolish, stupid, senseless,” and comes from the Latin “nescire”, meaning “to be ignorant.”
E106V TIL Neil Armstrong resigned from NASA to take a teaching job, where he stayed for more than eight years—longer than his career as an astronaut. As part of a research group that included physician Henry Heimlich, he helped to design an artificial heart-lung system based on Apollo technology
BrdJD TIL there is a remaining glacier within Africa; the remnant of an ice cap on Kilimanjaro