10 Interesting Facts about Bulgarian

Nov 30 2022

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10. Bulgarians have been very important in the digital world

Some of the most groundbreaking inventions in the digital world have been made by people with Bulgarian roots. The first digital computer was made by John Vincent Atanasoff whose father was from a part of the Ottoman empire that is today Bulgaria. The first digital wristwatch was also invented by a Bulgarian. And Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, is named after his grandfather Marko, who first emigrated to the States from Bulgaria.

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