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the art of finding something better than what you were stupid enough to look for
coined byHorace Walpole in a 1754 letter
origin talePersian princes of Serendip, ancient name for Sri Lanka
penicillindiscovered from a moldy, forgotten petri dish
hard to translatevoted one of English's least translatable words
microwaveinvented after a chocolate bar melted near radar