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TIL of Ken Adam, one of only three World War II Royal Air Force pilots to be born in Germany. After the war, he become a set designer and won two Oscars for Best Art Direction. He was knighted in 2003, and died in 2016.

by whatilearned September 4, 2022, 9:11 pm

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TIL on March 11, 1958, the US Air Force accidently dropped a nuclear bomb on a farm in Mars Bluff, South Carolina

by whatilearned August 28, 2022, 2:25 pm

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TIL When a man in New York needed a heart transplant from a donor in Oklahoma, the hospital reached out to the US Air Force to help with transportation. The donor heart was transported across the country in two hours on an F-111 fighter jet. The operation was a complete success.

by whatilearned August 25, 2022, 12:39 am

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TIL Air Force Research Laboratory created a powerful supercomputer, nicknamed the “Condor Cluster,” by connecting together 1,760 Sony PS3s performing 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world.

by whatilearned August 19, 2022, 10:09 pm

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TIL that the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force were originally conceived as the ghosts of the E.T. video game cartridges from the Atari 2600 that were buried in the desert

by whatilearned August 6, 2022, 5:39 am

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TIL since 2013 the Dutch have held the annual Dutch Headwind Cycling Championships. The Championships take place on a raised storm barrier facing the sea, and during storms of wind force 7 or higher. Competitors use upright single-speed bikes for the 8.5km course, all into a head/side wind.

by whatilearned August 4, 2022, 3:51 pm

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TIL that the Edict of Milan was created in 313 so that Christians and other faiths would be “treated benevolently within the Roman Empire”. When the Christians became the dominant force after the fall of the Roman Empire, they didn’t return the same favor the Jews and Muslims.

by whatilearned July 26, 2022, 6:01 pm

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TIL In 1966, the United States Air Force lost 4 hydrogen bombs above Palomares (Spain) after a midair collision. Two of these bombs spreaded radioactive material, including plutonium-239, over a wide area. A large amount of contaminated Spanish soil was removed, packed up, and ship to the US.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 8:23 pm

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TIL Michael E. Langley a U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Who serves as Commander of U.S. Marine Corps Force Command is nominated for promotion to general and assignment commander of U.S. Africa Command. If confirmed, he would be the first black four-star general in Marine Corps history.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 6:31 pm

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TIL that in the 1971 INDO-PAK war, BBC once mistakenly reported that Indian Air Force had air-dropped 5,000 soldiers,13 times more than the actual number of 384.The incorrect report scared Pakistan and hastened the surrender of Pakistani soldiers which eventually led to the liberation of Bangladesh.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 3:12 pm

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TIL That 1965 A patent was awarded for an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force”

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 5:45 pm

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What do you call a Marine wearing an Air Force uniform?

by cringeyjokesman July 18, 2022, 3:01 am

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