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yMxV TIL The inventor of auto-tune forgot to patent his idea in germany. Emagic created a similar program. Then Apple bought [Emagic], and integrated it into their Logic Pro software. his company’s reaction: “We can’t sue them, it would put us out of business. They’re too big to sue.”
xo5b TIL In 1883, a writer attempted to make a Portuguese-to-English phrasebook - despite not knowing English himself. Popularized in America by Mark Twain, “English As She Is Spoke” is filled with such nonsensical English idioms as “to craunch the marmoset” and “to buy cat in pocket.”
vPB18 TIL of the view that the response to the "Year 2000 problem" was indeed an overreaction, as evidenced by countries such as South Korea and Russia who invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation having the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money
R5mLw TIL Sarah Rector Became The ‘Richest Black Girl In America’ In The Early 20th Century By the time she turned 18, Sarah Rector's net worth was estimated at over $1 million — about $28 million today. And it all came from undesirable land that the federal government gave her.