Thanks to Luke the Nordic Giant…

…you are about to become a better person. He writes:

FUN FACT FOR TODAY:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote the words “Elementary, my dear Watson” in his life. Both halves of the phrase appear separately throughout the Holmes stories, but never in this exact form. The first person to write it out in its now-famous and oft-repeated articulation:

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, in his novel Psmith, Journalist in 1915.

NOW YOU KNOW!