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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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bwDE TIL NASA Astronaut Owen Garriott successfully pranked flight controllers by playing a recording of his wife whilst on SkyLab. There were no women on board the space station and was used to make it look like there was a stowaway.
W7DkL TIL Jeanne Weber, a French woman, strangled at least 10 children, including her own. Convicted and declared insane in 1908, she hanged herself in 1918.
LkBrr TIL we are either left or right eye dominant, just the way we are either left-handed or right-handed. ~70% are right-eyed.
GYRGj TIL Jeff Daniels was only paid $50,000 for the movie "Dumb and Dumber". Jim Carrey was paid $7 million.
XGkP TIL General Motors once hired prostitutes to attempt to seduce Ralph Nader in order to discredit him in his campaign to force the automobile industry to include seatbelts in its cars.