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TIL that both OJ Simpson and Lance Armstrong sat on Corporate Audit Boards

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kO0xg TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
MD4b TIL there was a famous racehorse called Potoooooooo (or Pot-8-O) who acquired the strange spelling of his name, Potatoes, when a stable lad was asked to write it on a feed bin. The lad’s version, Potoooooooo, was said to amuse his lordship so he kept it
ynx8 TIL before 9/11, the credits of Rambo III dedicated the movie to the ’[..] brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.’ Now it’s dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan.
GYr11 TIL: Penguins have an organ above their eyes that converts seawater to freshwater
BgpKx TIL that the number of abs you have is genetic and varies from person to person. The number of abs you have depends on the number of rings of abdominal tissue that someone is born with, and some people can actually have 10-pack abs.