Mar 22

Top 5 Accidental Discoveries


Top 10 Accidental Discoveries:

1. Viagra
Created in 1992 during research for men with erectile dysfuncion.

2. LSD
Chemist Albert Hofmann took the world's first hit of acid in 1943 when he touched a little of lysergic acid diethlamide. Then he discovered the bad trip when taking more.

3. X-Rays
Was discovered in 1895 when German egghead Wilhelm Rontgen tried sticking various things in front of radiation.

4. Penecillin
Alexander Fleming created this in 1928. To bad when he created it, it only helped his family. He didn't have the money to market it.

5. Silly Putty
In the early 1940's, General Electric scientist James write was working on artificial rubber for the war effort when he mixed boric acid and silicon oil.

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Random Facts
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.

"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

Porcupines float in water.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

The pancreas produces Insulin.

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.

 

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