On this day in 1961…

Ready for some useless trivia?

Today is National Backwards Day.

Backwards Day was created by two farmers, Sarah Nicole Miller and Megan Emily Scott in 1961.

The idea came to them while they were milking their cows.

They were talking about arts and crafts which somehow turned into ideas for Backwards Day.

Today is the day when you do everything backwards.

The most famous example is the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza declared Opposite Day.

George was having his usual run of bad luck, so he decided to do everything the opposite way for a day.

“My life is the complete opposite of what I want it to be. Every instinct I’ve ever had has been completely wrong.”

George changed his ways and did the opposite of what his instinct told him.

Opposite Day turned George’s life around.

Word has it Leonardo Da Vinci practiced mirror-writing, writing text in the opposite direction that can be read in a mirror.