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TIL that Apple in 2022 achieved its highest-ever share of global smartphone operating profit at 85% and its highest-ever share of global smartphone revenue at 48% despite its global smartphone shipment share only being 18%.

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19DW TIL that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented in 1939 as an advertising copywriter for the Montgomery Ward department store, who was inspired by his own downtrodden life, as well as The Ugly Duckling story, to create the adventure of a misfit reindeer with a glowing red nose
YpMNB TIL: Only in the twentieth century did humans decide that the dandelion was a weed. Before the invention of lawns, the golden blossoms and lion-toothed leaves were more likely to be praised as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners used to weed out the grass to make room for the dandelions.
7rXN7 TIL: The residents of the Spanish village Villar de Corneja near Avila, where the average age is 75, toast the New Year 12 hours before the rest of their countrymen in a collective decision to get to bed at a decent hour.
VMb0p TIL that there is a town in Alaska called Whittier, and nearly everyone in that town lives in the same building.
Evop TIL that childhood trauma is directly linked to sickness in adult years, and that it is much more common than originally thought