February 22, 2012
The Inventive Inventory of Inventions Not Invented By Inventors

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QUESTION:
What do LSD, corn flakes,
dynamite, saccharine,
the microwave oven,
viagra, the Pacemaker,
velcro, penicillin,
anaesthesia, the Slinky,
Play Doh, Silly Putty, Post-its,
and vulcanized rubber
all have in common?

ANSWER: They were all discovered by accident.

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Posted by Mitch Ditkoff at February 22, 2012 11:37 PM

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