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TIL "Burning Platform" means the necessity of change despite the fear of the unknown consequences. This metaphor was derived from the fatal explosion of an oil drilling platform in which one survivor had to choose to jump into a sea of burning oil rather than burn on the platform

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doXZ TIL Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft
J1BdQ TIL that an F-117 Nighthawk crashed in Sequoia National Forest in 1986, two years before the plane was publicly announced. The US Air Force established a permitter around the crash site and secretly replaced the wreckage with a wrecked F-101A that had been stored in Area 51 for this purpose.
yQ0ka TIL that it's safer than ever to be a cop and the number of line‐of‐duty deaths has declined dramatically over the last five decades.
R5aaQ TIL: Velcro is actually a brand name, and they launched campaigns to get people to stop saying "Velcro". The correct term is actually "hook and loop".
p89np TIL that if you swat a fly and there’s a red smear, it’s not blood, but actually the pigment from its eyes.