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science-and-technology1 year ago

"Unintentional Breakthroughs: 31 Accidental Discoveries and Inventions"

Members of the 'Ask Reddit' community recently discussed accidental discoveries and inventions, including LSD, universal glue (Post-It notes), bird migration, Chauvet Cave paintings, gated reverb, X-rays, glass production, reverse transcriptase, Viagra, Silly Putty, polycarbonate polymer, dry cleaning, Precambrian Ediacara fossils, gunpowder, brown dwarf "The Accident," Niels Abel's math proof, Parakaryon Myojinensis, and the blue LED.