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And also any time numbers are used in RTL text*, which is pretty common. Besides, you might be surprised how often English words or acronyms are used in everyday texts. If there's a news story covering the American FBI, there's no way to avoid writing it as "FBI", in Latin letters.
But is that how it's rendered by default when typed into a computer, for example into Notepad? Or into a chatting app like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, etc.? To my knowledge, they are rendered horizontally unless the software is specifically configured to render them TTB.
I believe there actually are a few TTB properties in the Unicode database.
* except that one language that also uses RTL digits. I don't remember its name or where it's used, but it exists.