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TIL of a millionaire who announced he would bury his Bentley for his afterlife. After lots of negative reaction, he revealed the publicity stunt about organ donations. “People bury things that are much more valuable then cars and nobody seems to care”.

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W79r8 TIL That Grace Hopper, one of the very first women to ever work on a computer, came-up with the idea of using regular, English words to program a computer, due to her post-WWII experience trying to sell computers to the general public.
wLR4M TIL that Thomas Edison proposed to his future wife in morse code, she accepted in the same way.
DQ7NJ 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%.
ADDBo Short answer: Ever heard of man-struation?
9dQ7 TIL that film is still far superior to digital photography in megapixels. The most expensive consumer digital cameras in the world capture at best 50-60MP while film translates to anywhere between 50MP-800MP.