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Today I learned a radioactive cocaine analogue is used to test for Parkinson’s disease

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Y7m9r TIL of Goodhart's law which states "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" due to people gaming the outcome.
GxP1 TIL that while in office JFK regularly took painkillers, barbiturates and amphetamines prescribed by the well known celebrity doctor “Dr Feelgood”
WkAA8 TIL that in 2004, a woman's steel chastity belt triggered a security alarm at the metal detector. The woman explained that her husband had forced her to wear the device to prevent an extramarital affair while she was on vacation in Greece. She continued her flight to London on the pilot's authority.
Vmv0 TIL if you are granted “Freedom of the City” in the City of London, you have the right to a silken rope, if hanged, and if found drunk, a policeman will put you in a cab or escort you home. You also have the right to herd sheep over London Bridge, a right used as recently as 2013.
Y7e0W TIL that there is a medicine called Propranolol that was found in studies to reduce racial bias in those who take it.