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TIL Austria added chains to their national coat of arms' bird after 1945 to symbolize the end of German occupation

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Z8jmo TIL in 2015 Equity LifeStyle Properties, the US' largest trailer park owner, had controlling interests in nearly 140,000 parks.
xVaWo TIL According to a New York Times article from 1996, Lisa Simpson from 'The Simpsons' was responsible for an increase in young people, especially young women, playing the saxophone
78bpx TIL that the most popular YouTube video is Baby Shark with 15.6B views, resulting in the video receiving an estimated $37M+ in ad revenue. Thus making Baby Shark more successful than films such as Disaster Movie (2008) and Superman IV (1987).
awD8b TIL screensavers were originally created as a way to prevent burn-in on old CRT screens, where if the image stayed the same for too long it would get burnt into the screen.
GYMxE TIL at a Japanese University ceremony, graduates remotely operated robots that accepted certificates of graduation. Each student robot was dressed in a real cloth graduation gown & topped with a real mortarboard over the screen "head".