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TIL the Swiss Cheese Model is a form of risk analysis that proposes some errors are caused by flaws in multiple systems aligning, like the holes in different slices of Swiss cheese.

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9YG7p TIL 7% of the Brazilian population - or 11 million people - believe the Earth is flat.
W7E8L TIL in WW2, Japan interned 130,000 British, Dutch, and American civilians. 14,000 of them perished as a result
7rj1O TIL the lone Supreme Court justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson grew up in a household with a light-skinned, blue-eyed slave who was treated much like a family member. The slave, Robert Harlan, was believed to be John Harlan’s older half-brother. Even John’s father believed Robert was his son.
RDo4 TIL the name of the ‘USA Patriot Act’ is an acronym; “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001”
ANkkl TIL if you assume an event has a 1 in x chance of some outcome, and you perform that event x number of times, you have a ~63% chance of getting that outcome