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TIL Narinder Singh Kapani (1926-2020) is acknowledged as the Father of 'Fiber optics'-a term he coined. His work in 1953 ushered in a new era of High speed Internet, endoscopy, spectroscopy etc An unsung hero, he never patented it. He NEVER won a nobel.

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R7ZZj TIL about a South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family by landing a 2-Seater Cessna on an American aircraft carrier while escaping South Vietnam on its last full day as a country.
GA5W4 TIL The first Presidential Car to pass Secret Service demands was the Sunshine Special - a V12 1939 Lincoln Model K limousine that was used as the official state car by United States presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman which cost only $108,426 in 2023 dollars.
94EQ TIL that Fair Oaks Farms in Indiana produces compressed natural gas from its cows’ waste and uses it to fuel their fleet of delivery trucks and farm equipment. This practice saves 1.5 million gallons of diesel and reduced CO2 emissions by 1.4 million metric tons.
OG0y4 TIL Donna Summer was the first choice to sing "Its Raining Men" but hated it because as a now born-again Christian, she thought it was blasphemous and sent the songwriters a Bible the next day.”
9oyp TIL the Prog rock band Yes broke up,members of Yes started a new band called Cinema. Cinema wrote an album largely based off of songs by Yes. While recording the Yes vocalist joined Cinema. Cinema changed its name to Yes. Yes released the album, titled 90125. 90125 became their most successful album