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TIL of Yhprum's law, the opposite of Murphy's law, stating that "everything that can work, will work." "Yhprum" is "Murphy", spelled backwards.

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VMax4 TIL about James Thurber, author of 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' was cartoonist in New Yorker who got injured on one eye in childhood and lost vision from the other eye too. But he started seeing hallucinations and it is believed, they were the source of most of his illustrations.
0wMg1 TIL drinking alcohol in pregnancy is linked to depression in teenagers
BrMjb TIL that cast iron pans are a good source of dietary iron
R7Vbl TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
yQgEX TIL about spitting on 'the heart of Midlothian' on the royal mile in Edinburgh, Scotland - now done for luck but started in protest of a prison that hasn't stood in hundreds of years