This company turned toilet tech into a status symbol.

In 1980s Japan, nobody wanted to discuss bidets.

Today? 80% of homes have one… and it’s a $5B industry.

Here’s how TOTO turned bathroom etiquette into luxury branding: After WWII, hygiene became a national mission in Japan.

Dense cities, limited plumbing, and rising Western influence reshaped expectations:

Cleanliness = modernity.

This opened the door for a company that didn’t just sell toilets — it sold pride.

Enter: TOTO.

Larry Ellison might just be the wildest CEO alive:

• Hired detectives to dig through Microsoft’s trash
• Battled Google in court for over a decade
• Once plotted to buy Apple and reinstall Steve Jobs as CEO

At 80, he looks younger than most 50-year-olds.

How he pulled this off is unbelievable 🧵 Ellison and Steve Jobs were close friends. When Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985, Ellison stood firmly by him.

He even hatched a plan to acquire Apple, appoint Jobs as CEO, and hand him 25% ownership.

Jobs declined. Here’s Ellison explaining it 👇

The United States invests $728 billion in military technology research.

These weapons are chilling and hard to imagine.

Here are 11 SECRET US (and related) military technologies you should know about: 1.PHASR laser

A directed-energy dazzler designed to temporarily blind or disorient targets.

This is INSANE

🚨 Robots are taking over jobs quicker than anyone expected—and it’s no longer science fiction.

Here are 10 real-world examples showing the future has already arrived:

1. A robot barber now delivers perfect haircuts—no shaky hands, no slip-ups. ✂️ 2. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is working as a cameraman—capturing buttery-smooth, shake-free shots. 🎥

The most expensive 60 seconds in tech history:

One word from Yahoo cost them $1 TRILLION.

It made two Stanford dropouts rulers of the internet—and doomed an online giant forever.

Here’s how it happened: 🧵
1999: Larry Page & Sergey Brin were broke grad students running a search engine called BackRub.

They maxed out credit cards to buy dorm-room servers. Stanford was pressuring them to finish their PhDs, not waste time on side projects.

Without funding, their little search engine was dead in the water.

The most powerful family today isn’t the Trumps or the Rothschilds.

It’s a family that avoids interviews and refuses to use social media.

Yet almost EVERYONE relies on their product daily.

Here are the top 10 richest and most influential families on earth:


10/The Rothschilds

Once the wealthiest private family of the 19th century.

Today, still worth billions—though no one knows the true figure.

Their power move?

In 1815, Nathan Rothschild got early word of Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo.

What he did next was legendary:

Technology is racing forward—
and with every breakthrough, the line between genius and disaster gets thinner.

Here are 13 Tech inventions you won’t believe actually exist: 🧵 1. Deauther Watch
A wrist-sized device that can knock Wi-Fi networks offline. While it looks harmless, it poses huge cybersecurity risks.

The wealthiest man in U.S. history wrote 38 hidden letters to his son.

They weren’t about riches.

They revealed the brutal psychological strategies J.D. Rockefeller used to build empires worth more than entire nations.

Here are 9 lessons he passed on: 🧵 First, remember who Rockefeller was:

• Raised in poverty, father was a swindler
• Built Standard Oil from scratch
• Controlled 90% of America’s refineries
• Net worth = $400B adjusted today

But his true masterpiece? These letters.

BIC and its genius advertising.

Here are the 9 best BIC ads of all time that showcase creativity like no other:

1. BIC Pens ✍️ 1. Your safety comes first.

The global tech race is shifting.

China is rapidly outpacing the US in robotics — real machines, real deployment.

Software is no longer enough.

Here’s how China took the lead — 12 examples: 🧵
1. Unitree H1 Humanoid

A $90K humanoid robot that can walk, run, and balance, at 5% of the US equivalent’s cost.

This isn’t from a megacorp. It’s from a startup in Shenzhen.

The secret? China’s mature supply chains and rapid iteration cycles.

You're wasting Netflix

If you haven’t watched these 10 movies: 1. Hit Man

Professional killer Gary Johnson breaks protocol to help a desperate woman who has enlisted his services and finds himself falling for her.

The most dangerous man in tech isn’t Elon or Altman.

It’s a 77-year-old professor they call the “Godfather of AI."

In a viral interview, he just revealed the terrifying truth about AI's future.

Here are his 7 warnings that could save (or doom) humanity: 🧵 Meet Geoffrey Hinton.

Nobel Prize winner and AI pioneer.

He pushed neural networks for 50 years when nobody believed.

Google acquired his technology. He worked there for 10 years.

Then ChatGPT launched and everything changed...

It’s not sci-fi anymore... it’s real.

Here are 10 insane tech inventions you need to see (wait till #6): 1. Air-to-water machine

An innovative device that extracts moisture from the air to produce clean and potable water.

MIT University just released free online courses.

No payment required.

Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025: 1. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫

Topics:

• Overcoming the top myths of entrepreneurship

• Identifying business opportunities

• Performing market research and choosing your target customer

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10 movies that will teach you more about finance than your $100,000 degree:

- Money Thread -

1. Moneyball 2) The Big Short

THE SIMPSONS' PREDICTIONS FOR 2025 WILL LEAVE YOU STUNNED

Explore some of the wildest predictions made by The Simpsons — some of which appear to have eerily come true.

This list is not for the faint-hearted. 1. Apple Vision Pro: Reality Reinvented

A leap into augmented reality that echoes early depictions from The Simpsons.

You're not using your Netflix subscription right if you haven't watched these 11 banger movies.

🔖 Save this list for your weekend binge.

A thread 🧵 1. A Few Good Men

Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a young Navy lawyer, takes on the defense of two Marines charged with murder.

As he digs deeper, the trial begins to unravel secrets hidden within the military ranks—culminating in one of the most iconic courtroom scenes ever.

No one made more money in trading than Jim Simons.

Not Buffett. Not Soros. Not Dalio.

His hedge fund was so powerful, he shut it down to outsiders.

$100 in 1988 grew to $400M in 30 years.

Here’s how a mathematician became the world’s greatest trader:
Jim Simons was no ordinary investor.

Before conquering Wall Street, he was:

• A math professor at MIT and Harvard
• A Cold War code-breaker for the NSA
• A pioneer in quantum computing

But none of this satisfied him.

"Some people like to paint, others like to cook. I like to make money."

🚨 Robots are replacing humans faster than you think.

Here are 9 real-world examples that feel like sci-fi: 👇🧵

1. Robots fixing high-voltage power lines ⚡️
2. Robotic valet parking 🚗

The 15 most successful family businesses in history you’ve never heard of...

1. Ferrero Group: the world's most powerful chocolate brand: 🧵
Founded in 1946 by Pietro Ferrero.

Currently led by: Giovanni Ferrero (second generation).

Revenue: Over $17 billion.

Highlights: Makers of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, and Kinder, an iconic global confectionery brand.

Status: 100% family-owned, with solid management and tremendous profitability.

Knowing Excel is a golden bracelet.

Take a day to master these.

Here are all the Excel shortcuts and 10 must-know hacks to upgrade your skills: 👇🏻 1. Auto-fit column width like a boss