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Potato chips were invented when a chef repeatedly sliced potatoes too thin to spite a customer.
In 1853, George Crum was irritated by a customer who kept sending back french fries for being too thick. He sliced them paper-thin and fried them crisp as a sarcastic response. The customer loved them, and potato chips were born from this act of culinary spite.
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Artificial snow was invented by accident in a General Electric lab.
In 1946, Vincent Schaefer was studying cloud formation in a GE lab when he accidentally used dry ice...
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The first photograph was created when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce left a pewter plate in sunlight.
In 1826, Niépce created the first permanent photograph by accident when he left a pewter plate coated with...
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Iodine was discovered in seaweed ash being used to treat goiter.
In 1811, Bernard Courtois discovered iodine while extracting sodium and potassium compounds from seaweed ash. This accidental discovery...