“Origin of ‘Littlewood’s Law of Miracles’”, 2019-02-16 (; backlinks; similar):
Leprechaun hunting the origins of the famous skeptical observation that because millions of events are constantly happening, ‘miracles’ happen once a month; it was actually coined by Freeman Dyson.
I try to trace back “Littlewood’s Law of Miracles” to its supposed source in Littlewood’s A Mathematician’s Miscellany. It does not appear in that book, making it a leprechaun, and further investigation indicates that Littlewood did not come up with it but that Freeman Dyson coined it in 200420ya, probably based on the earlier “Law of Truly Large Numbers” coined by 1989, in a case of Stigler’s law.