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TIL the first Indian Scientist (Subhash Mukhopadhyay) to create a IVF child (durga) in 1978 (67 days after the 1st baby in UK) comitted suicide after being harasssed and discredited by the state and central government of India and even prevented from sharing his success globally.

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ep7Q6 TIL Sumer was the first known civilization in southern Mesopotamia. It was there between 6,000 and 5,000 BC. Its writing goes back to around 3000 BC. The oldest texts come from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr.
b6MZZ TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.
nWepb TIL: In 1909, Helen Taft, wife of President William Howard Taft, drove an electric car. It was a Baker Motor Vehicle and one of the cars in the White House fleet.
oR7Nr TIL that All-American Jeep got bought in 1979 by French Renault. French patronage helped Jeep produce one of its most successful off-roaders, the XJ. Renault sold Jeep to Chrysler only 8 years later and exited the US market for good.
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