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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 JFK experienced chronic back pain. He underwent 4 back operations, including a discectomy, an instrumentation and fusion, and 2 minor surgeries that failed to improve his pain.

by whatilearned August 7, 2022, 10:14 am

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TIL that the Secret operations executive had an exhibition of spy gadgets in the natural history museum, London. 1942

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 2:15 pm

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TIL that Oscar Wilde’s tomb was literally destroyed by kisses. Traditionally, visitors to the tomb would kiss it after applying lipstick, which caused it to weaken over time as cleaning operations to remove the lipstick grease caused the stone to become more porous.

by whatilearned July 24, 2022, 2:15 pm

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TIL of the K-ships — a class of armed blimps used by the US Navy during WW2 for anti-submarine warfare operations against German U-boats. Only one K-ship was lost due to enemy action when the K-74 was shot down by machine gun fire from the submarine U-134 on the night of the 18th of July 1943

by whatilearned July 18, 2022, 12:51 pm

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TIL Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.

by whatilearned June 3, 2022, 10:44 pm

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Which two business operations should not be together under the same roof?

by QuestionGuy May 9, 2022, 3:01 pm

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TIL, In October 2021 a ninja with a sword assailed a U.S. Army special operations unit in California : NPR

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 3:23 pm

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TIL the US Navy proposed a gigantic mobile base for supporting operations beyond friendly territory called the mobile offshore base (MOB).

by whatilearned April 29, 2022, 5:31 am

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TIL John Wayne Gacy can be linked to two other serial killer “operations” by what seems to be sheer coincidence

by whatilearned April 23, 2022, 5:31 am

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TIL about the “Ghost Army”, a unit in World War II which used inflatable tanks, recordings of moving vehicles, scripted radio transactions, dummy planes to fool the Axis soldiers throughout the Allied invasion of Europe. They had more than 24 operations in their stint.

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 12:33 pm

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McDonalds has decided to close all operations in Russia

by cringeyjokesman March 9, 2022, 1:53 am

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