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Everyday Things Invented By Accident

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Some of these things, such as Post-It Notes, languished as failures for years before being discovered to have other uses. Others were found by accident. For example customers discovered that Strivectin, a cream for stretch marks, minimised wrinkles. It is now marketed by the company as an anti-wrinkle product.

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  • Botox
  • Brandy
  • Bubble wrap
  • Champagne
  • Chewing gum
  • Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Coca Cola
  • Cornflakes
  • Dry cleaning
  • Dynamite
  • Fireworks
  • Ice cream cones
  • Ink-jet printers
  • LSD
  • Matches
  • Microwave ovens
  • Pacemakera
  • Pap smears
  • Penicillin
  • Popsicles
  • Post-It notes
  • Potato Chips/Crisps
  • Potato Crisps
  • Quinine
  • Saccharin
  • Safety glass
  • Safety pins
  • Scotchguard
  • Silly putty
  • Superglue
  • Tea bags
  • Teflon
  • The Slinky
  • Vaseline
  • Velcro
  • Viagra
  • X-Rays

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