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TIL Lemmy.World allows users to have animated webp avatars and banners.

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Yxgx TIL in March 2014 10.8% of all new cars registered in Norway were Tesla Model S’s.
LQm7Z TIL that in the 1860s, Napoleon III backed the “Pantelegraph", an early fax machine invented by Giovanni Caselli in 1855 - over 20 years before the telephone. It sent handwriting over telegraph lines; 25 words took 108 seconds. It was frequently used to verify signatures in banking.
4xrw TIL the brewery in Belgium that created and produces Stella Artois pilsner beer was founded in 1366 as the “Den Hoorn” brewery in Leuven and turns 650 this year. It became “Brouwerij Artois” in 1717. The horn logo is recognized as the oldest known continuously-used company logo in the world.
PYBrZ TIL Police in Finland believe they have caught a car thief with the help of a dead mosquito they noticed inside an abandoned vehicle. Police saw that the mosquito had recently sucked blood and decided to send the insect for analysis, and the DNA matched the man on the Police Register.
1adyW TIL that Caesar salad was invented in Tijuana, Mexico, and contained whole lettuce leaves meant to be picked up and eaten with your hands