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TIL that “Muphry’s Law” is an intentional misspelling of “Murphy’s Law” which states that anything written to criticize the spelling or proofreading of others will ironically contain editing mistakes as well.

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Eg19o TIL Dr. Seuss's first book "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" was rejected by 27 publishers. He decided to destroy the book but randomly bumped into an old friend who'd just become a children's book editor, who asked to look at it and ended up publishing it.
VMAom TIL Liver-Eating Johnson was a mountain man of the Old West who supposedly killed 300 men of the Crow tribe and ate their livers in revenge for the Crow murdering his wife.
mxXkE TIL metal detectorists searching on a farmer's property for a legendary $23 million treasure hoard were only allowed to look for 10-15 hours one day a year after harvest. It took them 30 years to find it.
Ypyv7 TIL that a babushka (grandmother) hit an internet backbone cable with her shovel in 2011, shutting down the internet for the entire country of Armenia
W7o7L TIL If Coca-Cola's inventor had decided to file a patent application in 1892 instead of keeping the recipe a secret, patent protection would have expired long before Pepsi ever came onto the market in 1965. Patent protection lasts 20 years at most. Trade secrets can last forever.