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Today I learned that Yhprums law [Everything that can work, will work] is exact opposite to Murphy Law [Anything that can go wrong will go wrong]. Both literally and in meaning.

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78GWp TIL that adding cheese to hamburgers became popular in 1920. Lionel Sternberger is reputed to have introduced the cheeseburger while working as a fry cook at his father's Pasadena, California sandwich shop and "experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger.
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