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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.

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rRNrW TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.
9YZvX TIL of Philippe Servaty, a Belgian journalist who photographed himself having sex with over 80 girls in Morocco after having promised to take them to Europe. He then he ditched them and published the photos online. Many of the women were incarcerated, killed, or committed suicide.
GAA8j TIL There is a storm on Jupiter big enough to swallow the earth
vPvkD TIL At the end of World War 1 Philippe Pétain was considered one of France’s greatest war hero’s. At the end of World War 2 he was sentenced to death for conspiring with Hitler.
G8wE TIL there is a programming language called Malbolge, specifically designed to be almost impossible to use. When it was created it was so difficult to understand that it took two years for the first Malbolge program to appear.