Want some super-size facts about McDonald’s. How about that the restaurant needs to kill a million cows yearly to feed you with burgers, or to make about 75 hamburgers per second, according to a USA Today article. Today McDonald’s revenue is bigger than Vermont’s entire economy and its US ad spending alone nearly matched the combined ad spending of Obama and Romney in the last election.

Then there are the controversies. If you think you’ve read all the issues surrounding the Happy Meal, check the stories we’ve unearthed. Blamed for the rising obesity incidence among American children, McDonald’s did blame and fire the first Ronald McDonald actor for, guess what?

Courtesy of Alex Hillsberg  and CompareCamp.com