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TIL it comes from:

"1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’."

Btw thanks for picking nits. New things can be learned no matter what



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