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TIL - Alf Adams came up for the idea of the ‘strained-layer quantum well laser’ walking on the beach with his wife. He paused for a moment and asked her to stop talking for a moment to let him think, these lasers are now used in almost every household today

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Br11e TIL in 1913 Milunka Savić joined the Serbian army in her brother’s place-cutting her hair and donning men’s clothes. According to a Serbian source, she may be the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare.
dDxdr TIL there is a dish called Escamoles in Mexico made from ant larva that has been around since the Aztecs.
ldXa TIL that the 2015 Raspberry Award for worst screen combo went to “Kirk Cameron and his ego” for the movie Saving Christmas.
GY5X7 TIL Australian PM Gough Whitlam was removed by a British-American coup for abolishing royal patronage, moving Australia towards the Non-Aligned Movement, supporting “zones of peace”, opposing nuclear weapons testing, and threatening to close a CIA espionage base in Australia
7rZ9b TIL the Notre Dame Cathedral was left to ruin until it was restored in the 19th century, and the restoration was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's reimagining of what a Middle-Age Cathedral may have looked like.