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TIL Russia inflates its military with realistic blow-up weapons that can trick enemy radar such as inflatable tanks and MiG fighter jets and even entire radar stations.

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VMxG TIL that a computer as powerful as the human brain would be able to perform about 38 thousand trillion operations per second and hold about 3,584 terabytes of memory.