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TIL that the new controls for the periscope in the class of most advanced nuclear attack submarine ever, the Navy used what it calls COTS (Civilian Off The Shelf) technology… in this case, an Xbox 360 controller.

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d8Jp7 TIL that George Washinton owned a quartet of dogs named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy
BrRWr TIL timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
VGbm TIL The most decorated soldier in US history was an orphan who was shunned by his own men for being too small, and was turned away from two other military services before he got the chance to see combat. He was awarded every medal that a soldier could receive.
8eEGX [TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.
W7RNL TIL about Cargo Cult, example being the Melanesian islanders during WWII in pacific theater. Once American and Japanese presence withdrawn in attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or land in planes or ships again, islanders imitated the same practices they had seen the military personnel!