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TIL there is a McDonald's in the Vatican

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d897j TIL Ballooning is a process by which spiderlings and even some species of adult spiders move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads from their spinnerets to catch the wind becoming airborne sometimes for long distances and great heights at the mercy of air and electric currents.
vPLjK TIL The US Government has an entire telephone area code (710) reserved for itself, and there exists only one phone number in that entire area code.
YEKv TIL it takes 75,000 trees to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
rRjWw TIL of garden hermits, people encouraged to dress as druids and live in caves and grottoes on the estates of rich people effectively as decoration, usually receiving room and board as payment. One such hermit was fired three weeks into a seven year term after being found drinking at a local pub.
0daXp TIL Harald a lowly Viking Chieftain proposed to his concubine Gyda, who declined, saying she’d only marry him if he ruled all of Norway. Harald vowed not to cut or comb his hair until he achieved this. After ten years of war, he united Norway, earned the nickname “Fairhair,” and married Gyda.