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TIL that Windows in Japan has anime-girl mascots called OS-tans. Each of them has the surname of Madobe (窓辺, meaning By the Windowside) and a new one is created for each operating system starting with Windows 7. They have had various tie in products over the years in addition to promoting Windows OS

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ANLZg TIL The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has a free Lost Policy Service. It can assist in locating life insurance policies and annuity contracts of a deceased family member or close relationship
OomLL TIL Natives in Canada had a traditional gift giving holiday nearly identical to Christmas called Potlatch until it was outlawed for being unchristian, hundreds of natives were sent to prison for continuing to celebrate it from 1921 until the law was finally repealed in the 1950s.
e47L TIL Fewer people are killed in the U.S. with all rifles including “assault rifles” each year than with shotguns, hammers & clubs, and hands & feet. (2007-2011 Chart)
mxk9E TIL that Queen Anne of England was pregnant 17 times. The first time at the age of eighteen, and the last at the age of thirty-four. She either miscarried or gave birth to stillborn babies. One child died under a year, another at a year and a half, and the oldest died at the age of eleven in 1700.
nWGR7 TIL in 1981, music retailer Sound of Music held a four-day "Tornado Sale" and promised "best buys" of its leftover stock, after a tornado damaged its most profitable location. The success of the sale inspired the store to rebrand itself in 1983 as Best Buy