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TIL Montpelier, Vermont is the only US capital without a McDonald's

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4RQR TIL that Monsanto once created a town in Illinois so it could build a factory in a town with low taxes and lax regulations. The town is now home to a huge superfund site
VnMm TIL that in ‘Tropic Thunder,’ Robert Downey Jr.’s character says “I don’t drop character 'til I’ve done the DVD commentary.” When doing the actual DVD commentary, RDJ does it in the characters Lincoln Osiris and Kirk Lazarus.
8aVmK TIL about Alien Hand Syndrome, a condition in which a person loses conscious control of one of their hands, and it seemingly acts as if it has a mind of its own. There is no known cure, although symptoms can be managed to some degree by keeping the alien hand occupied with something to play with.
YbYA TIL in 1945, Grace Hopper traced a computer problem to a moth between the relays, then taped it up into her log book and wrote, “First actual case of a bug being found.” This popularized the terms “bug” and “debug” and her log book is now stored within the Smithsonian.
X0J68 TIL in the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number which charged $2 for the first minute and $.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen in on a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences, and thousands of them heard the Challenger explosion in real time.