Incredible Every Day Items that were Discovered by Accident

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Incredible Every Day Items that were Discovered by Accident

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@smithbilly467 Ай бұрын

Silly Putty was created as a counterbalance to Serious Putty, more commonly known as C4

@misterflibble6601 Ай бұрын

seriously incendiary comment

@bartellemy9955 Ай бұрын

Hahaha awesome

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

🤣

@seasonallyferal1439 Ай бұрын

Lmao

@ismarwinkelman5648 Ай бұрын

Love this comment 😂

@johnlowe37 Ай бұрын

When you do another batch of these, consider including Astroglide. Conceived as something to improve heat transfer in the cooling system of the Space Shuttle, it's now a very successful "personal lubricant".

@benallen7704 Ай бұрын

So, it ahhh, still improves heat transfer?

@UpperDarbyDetailing Ай бұрын

Which is telling, because it’s terrible for purpose unless you’re quick.

@davidlobaugh4490 Ай бұрын

"Collected some samples from both his trousers and his dog" 😢 😂Thought I was watching brain blaze for a minute 😆🤠

@ecocodex4431 Ай бұрын

4:38 Velcro's lawyers with the C&D letter at the ready: 👀 4:57 Velcro's lawyers putting down the letter: 😌

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

@@ecocodex4431 Don't you mean shredding it and overwriting the file it was printed from?

@mikeguilmette776 Ай бұрын

6:30 Men in Black put down the memory eraser.

@fricki1997 Ай бұрын

4:59 Fun fact: Here in Germany velcro is not called the brand name, but rather "Klettverschluss", or literally: burdock fastener

@pioneercynthia1 Ай бұрын

That's quite an excellent analogy! 😂

@teuncoens8355 Ай бұрын

In dutch it's called klittenband, which is roughly translated as tangled tape (like the knots in hair)

@richardletaw4068 21 күн бұрын

Ausgezeichnett!

@OUmSKILLS Ай бұрын

8:45 Bone does not reflect Xrays, it absorbs them.

@KarldorisLambley Ай бұрын

everything absorbs x-rays, to a lesser or greater degree.

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

I remember way back when the Radar Range was one of the prizes on The Price is Right.

@pioneercynthia1 Ай бұрын

OMG, yes! Dating ourselves to admit that, right? 😂

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

@@pioneercynthia1 I'm old. I can live with that just fine. 🤣

@smithandshortdogs Ай бұрын

Roentgen also managed to get a unit of radiation named after himself... as in "It's not three Roentgen it is fifteen thousand".

@dragonsword7370 Ай бұрын

Just background radiation. Not great, not terrible. Oh, and "You didn't see any Graphite Because It Wasn't THERE!

@gregorybarnard5593 Ай бұрын

"We did everything right"

@eternalsunrising Ай бұрын

Dyatlov was in charge!

@hughjass1976 Ай бұрын

@@eternalsunrisingnah, he had to Pass

@justinluttrell8990 Ай бұрын

Not great, but not horrifying

@EverettvonNordeck-gf2cw Ай бұрын

I had major ear infections as a child resulting in 5 sets of tubes in my ears. To keep water from getting in my ears while bathing making matters worse my doctor had my mother purchase silly putty. Excellent ear plugs waterproof and reusable. My hearing improved 75% and the infections went away. Thanks for your part silly putty.

@StoneDeceiver Ай бұрын

i bet you looked pretty silly with putty in your ears! ~ ba dum tss 🥁~ 😶🤣

@ignitionfrn2223 Ай бұрын

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Microwave oven 2:50 - Chapter 2 - Pacemaker 4:40 - Chapter 3 - Velcro 6:35 - Chapter 4 - Silly putty 8:20 - Chapter 5 - X ray 9:50 - Chapter 6 - Matches

@JonathanExley Ай бұрын

Legend

@pioneercynthia1 Ай бұрын

We were the first family in miles to have a microwave (my dad was a _very_ early adopter of technology). For weeks, people would drop by with a potato to be miraculously baked.

@sydhenderson6753 Ай бұрын

Roentgen's discovery of X-Rays quickly led to Becquerel's discovery of radioactivity. He was investigating whether fluorescent substances also produced X-rays. As it happened, the fluorescent compound he was investigating was a compound of uranium. It was cloudy for several days, and he put the uranium sample on top of some photographic plates in a drawer. After a while, he decided to develop the plates (not stupidly; the uranium sample would have had a small amount of fluorescence from ambient light before he put it in the drawer). The plates were much more fogged than expected, and the explanation made history.

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

@@sydhenderson6753 Okay, so where does Marie Curie's contribution factor in?

@sydhenderson6753 Ай бұрын

@@newshodgepodge6329 She and Pierre discovered polonium and radium and realized what was going on was transmutation of elements. Marie coined the word "radioactivity". The Curies shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with Becquerel and Marie later got a Nobel Prize in Chemistry by herself. Roentgen got the first Nobel Prize in Physics.

@sydhenderson6753 Ай бұрын

Apparently it was Ernest Rutherford who realized that transmutation was involved. Several more radioactive elements had been discovered by that point.

@HikuroMishiro Ай бұрын

@@sydhenderson6753 Human kind can not gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth.

@sydhenderson6753 Ай бұрын

@@HikuroMishiro I have no idea what you're trying to say.

@ives3572 Ай бұрын

Necessity might be the mother of most (if not exactly all) inventions, but Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventions.

@jakestatefarm3477 Ай бұрын

How was Velcro "accidental"??? He saw an example in nature, did research, figured out how to make it work, and then eventually NASA came along wanting it. I don't see the "accident" ???

@limhan3209 28 күн бұрын

More "by chance" than accidental

@richardletaw4068 21 күн бұрын

How many millions of people had had the same experience, but failed to ask similar questions, or pursue the answer to a practical conclusion?

@h84gabor6 Ай бұрын

Just because something originates back to an accidental discovery it doesn't mean without that it wouldn't exist today. It can be thought of as it was ahead of its time.

@giovannifigoni Ай бұрын

I remember during my business studies they taught me that one day at 3M they invented a glue that wasn't very good and then they started using it to stick little notes and pieces of paper around. Thus the post-it was born

@chadwahl9085 Ай бұрын

I thought Velcro was discovered after a Vulcan was on a deep cover mission had to crash land in Carbon Creek PA in 1957 ?

@laurendoe168 Ай бұрын

The story of the match girls is similar to those working with watches that used radium on the watch face to make it visible in the dark.

@iamchillydogg 20 күн бұрын

They would lick the brushes they used to apply the radium to make a fine point.

@dfpytwa Ай бұрын

So Velcro was not sold to an inventor by a time traveling Vulcan. Learn something new everyday!

@JohnClark-tt2bl Ай бұрын

Stole my reply!😅

@Bob6800a Ай бұрын

Well, the one that stayed behind was named Mestral.

@RealMoukeycat Ай бұрын

This reminds me of the Monty Python, "would Albert Einstein have ever thought of the theory of relativity if he hadn't, by mere circumstance, spent years working at the problem?!!" or words to that effect.

@ahnikalopez3859 Ай бұрын

Silly putty was used in my speech therapy to help with my stutter as a kid 😅 #thankyousillyputty

@LiveFreeOrDie2A 21 күн бұрын

Explain?

@danaxtell2367 Ай бұрын

For antique matches, phosphorus was evil, but you also mentioned antimony! The beautiful yellow antimonite bricks in the hanging gardens of Babylon are speculated to be why Nebuchadnezzar II ate grass like an ox for seven years. They were certainly a beautiful yellow, the way lead paint was a beautiful white. I guess invention will always be this reckless. When you invent an automobile, you don't need a brake at all before success.

@a.ham.9856 Ай бұрын

Velco is sufficiently clever that I've seen it used several times in movies as an example of technology we obviously swiped from contact with aliens, which is kinda funny considering how it really came about.

@crystalweible152 Ай бұрын

Silly Putty!❤ 48yrs old and I still can't resist it! I probably have 5 or 6 eggs scattered around my house! Great for keeping my hands nimble and staving off boredom!😂

@JSx145 Ай бұрын

8:58 definitely not a stock clip of someone’s bong that made it through edit and onto a video 😂

@ad2000 Ай бұрын

More discoveries made Saying "Whoops" than there are saying "Eureka"

@edwinwhitaker5679 Ай бұрын

Pink Floyd named their first album to reach the number one position in the album charts Atom Heart Mother. This was in 1970 and it was named after Constance Laddell who had the first pacemaker operation in Great Britain.

@darinsingleton3553 Ай бұрын

Not exactly "The Day the Universe Changed" or "Connections," but still fun. James Burke will, hopefully be pleased.

@alexplechowicz5565 Ай бұрын

The story of the home kitchen microwave is more interesting than the story invention of the microwave itself! 😂

@dormantreign Ай бұрын

You are wrong about Velcro...T'pol invented it.

@duncanrasey5413 Ай бұрын

Exactly, the story sounds anything but accidental!

@SableDrakon Ай бұрын

You're wrong... It was one of her ancestors.

@brandenaguilar2962 Ай бұрын

Ancient Egyptian person: " we need a fire" the other person: " hold on let me get my matchsticks " the 3rd person: " great now how do you use them?" Person with the matchsticks: " they light using fire" everyone else: ".....um "

@AcidUsagi Ай бұрын

Heretical for Simon to suggest that we reheat our coffee in the microwave.

@FoxWolfWorld Ай бұрын

I do it every day

@laurendoe168 Ай бұрын

Most coffeemakers go bad because the heating element wears out. The less you use the heating element, the longer the coffeemaker will last. I make a pot of coffee and turn it off shortly after it's done.

@StoneDeceiver Ай бұрын

it's not a suggestion, it is a fact that this is common in pretty much every household with a standard carafe drip-coffee maker... if the entire pot isn't drank immediately it eventually goes cold, but is still perfectly good to drink even 24hours+ later after a minute or two in the microwave. my family did this forever until we got a keurig single-cup-pod thingy. my mom and i stopped using a carafe style brewer altogether, but my dad still uses it most of the time and only uses the keurig when he is not willing to wait for a fresh pot to brew and there's none left to microwave. tbh, my dad should just quit using that thing since it's really, REALLY old and probably has like 10 yrs of mold in it since he NEVER and i mean NEVER cleans it, but he refuses to give it up cuz he thinks its the best coffee brewer he ever had (it's not even special, it's just no-name brand average to low cost brewer) lol

@StoneDeceiver Ай бұрын

@@FoxWolfWorld how old until u won't microwave it anymore? same day, next day? for my household it was normal to drink it even if it was yesterdays, never had a problem and it always tasted the same as when it was fresh even after 24 hr

@laurendoe168 Ай бұрын

@@StoneDeceiver Yeah... every so often you need to pour vinegar into it to keep it fresh. Keurigs are nice, but the "per cup" cost of coffee is like 10 times that of the drip coffee.

@glasshalffull2930 Ай бұрын

Post-It notes and Superglue fumes for developing latent fingerprints at crime scenes.

@Jayjay-qe6um Ай бұрын

"Accidents - the greatest of all inventors." -- Mark Twain

@Zidbits Ай бұрын

People always think great discoveries are found and people yell, "Eureka!" ... instead, the greatest discoveries have came from someone uttering the phrase, "Hmm, that's weird..."

@ferociousgumby Ай бұрын

I remember seeing a movie about someone who made a fortune by inventing "silent Velcro". Don't remember what it was called.

@aceundead4750 Ай бұрын

So those burrs are called burdock. Kakarot really did get sent to the right planet.

@iNuchalHead Ай бұрын

There _was_ a line of microwave ovens branded "Radar Range" available for home kitchens, same size as any other microwave oven.

@MARILYNANDERSON88 Ай бұрын

My cat has an invention, she's made a door knocker.. On her own she loosened a trim board that she pulls out and loudly snaps so that I can hear she wants in. Now when I want her home, I snap her door knocker and she trots home and in the door!

@Esk8_Flo_Ryda Ай бұрын

Should look into Tesla and the discovery of X-rays aka shadowgraphs.

@tylercooper1551 Ай бұрын

My great grandfather was on the initial team that was working on the microwave oven but his group lost out on achieving the patent. My great grandmother refused to have a microwave in her house because it was so dangerous and my great grandfather had developed some health issues due to working on the project

@j.p.6932 Ай бұрын

10:08 Weren’t lighters make before matchbooks?

@svenlima Ай бұрын

I didn't know that silly putty was an actual thing until now. I've only known for many years the music track "Silly Putty") by Stanley Clarke.

@exmcairgunner Ай бұрын

Bang on again sir.

@SpaceCattttt 13 күн бұрын

Silly Putty? Never heard of it. Oh, and modern matchsticks (safety match) were invented in Sweden.

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 22 күн бұрын

They say necessity is the mother of invention. War or the military is usually its father.

@Demonic_Tang Ай бұрын

The potential for unknown horrors should have been considered before the internet was invented

@ernst6660 Ай бұрын

What (name of) music was played at the start of the pacemaker section?

@kokitsunetora Ай бұрын

I wish my pacemaker had plutonium. Not looking forward to getting it replaced 😕

@goosenotmaverick1156 Ай бұрын

Nice

@gamecollectorbr Ай бұрын

Roentgen on Biographics anytime soon?

@Hex-Mas Ай бұрын

9:01 looks like a AI generated Bong lol

@lusalma5404 Ай бұрын

so far I am getting that Nasa took things others were not interested in and said YAY this solves our 0 g issues.

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 22 күн бұрын

I thought Velcro was introduced by a Vulcan in the 1950s

@meganlynn83 Ай бұрын

YAY!

@SRW_ Ай бұрын

Phosseey jaw *jazz hands*

@AhsanAli-ff4nf Ай бұрын

This guy speaks so fast that a 30 minute video is only 12 minutes

@Konglomerant 29 күн бұрын

0.75x speed…you’re welcome

@DavidMatthewKongsdorfLarse-g7l Ай бұрын

Make a new channel. casual curiosity🎉

@irwainnornossa4605 Ай бұрын

Röntgen rays!!!

@mikepierson7447 Ай бұрын

Look, I'm not saying that I'm just so damn intelligent but, haven't we already learned all of these things?

@ecocodex4431 Ай бұрын

8:38 or if you ever needed a wisdom tooth or other tooth pulled

@76ToneCrome Ай бұрын

The ice lolly (popsicle).

@im_a_simulation433 Ай бұрын

You have gone to the hospital with a broken bone, and now you are part metal.......

@Berengier817 Ай бұрын

Dude who discovered x rays is the selfless man we wish others were

@jonathanhill6064 Ай бұрын

I did have an old microwave that boiled a bottle of ketchup left on top of it while i made hot dogs. Just sayin.

@thepax2621 Ай бұрын

Let me guess... Penicillin?

@thepax2621 Ай бұрын

Oh well, I was wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️. Still an interesting video 👍🏻

@darlenefraser3022 Ай бұрын

You use penicillin every day???

@thepax2621 Ай бұрын

@@darlenefraser3022 ...thats actually a good point 🤷🏻‍♀️. But then the "X-Ray" invention beeing on this list, doesn't make much sense either or does it? 🤔

@darlenefraser3022 Ай бұрын

@@thepax2621 😝 True that!

@cellman1829 Ай бұрын

Funny even before this video started I said microwaves 😁😁

@hamiltoncouple01 12 күн бұрын

Hook and loop was invented by a plant

@anesumavhura7995 Ай бұрын

Vsauce jnr

@brs690 20 сағат бұрын

This episode feels rushed.

@ahotdj07 Ай бұрын

Why does this guy talk so fast?

@NicholasNerios Ай бұрын

😁

@chiphausl Ай бұрын

1/137

@laurendoe168 Ай бұрын

FYI - "Everyday" means "commonplace" while "every day" means "each day."

@EGSBiographies-om1wb 22 күн бұрын

151st

@Paul-uj8bk Ай бұрын

lol You already debunked #1 on one of your other channels.

@user-lb4yp4sl4y Ай бұрын

Nuclear weapons led to nuclear power. Nuclear power will (one day) lead to fusion power. Fusion power will reduce environmental degradation......

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

Very generic overview 😒

@Spooky_Platypus Ай бұрын

Please tell me why you people never learned that if you can’t say anything nice then don’t say anything at all?

@newshodgepodge6329 Ай бұрын

@@Spooky_Platypus That was the polite way of saying it. If I wanted to take the direct approach I would have just described these examples as being "done to death." It's a shame that some people don't have the stomach to digest any amount of criticism/feedback, not even when they don't have any skin in the game. 😔 Edit: I also wouldn't be surprised if you rant at anyone who dares to use the "dislike" button. 🥱

@chrisnyenya5233 Ай бұрын

I'm second to comment

@goosenotmaverick1156 Ай бұрын

4th. 5th if you count a reply to the second comment.

@adamwitt8216 Ай бұрын

I’m first!!

@JohnnyWednesday Ай бұрын

Second actually - but that's better than that third loser!

@TheKalaxis Ай бұрын

Good for you buddy. Your parents must be so proud. You should call them and tell them all about this incredible achievement! Don't be too long though! All the major news outlets are on their way to get an interview.

@bullie86 Ай бұрын

Im not

@anesumavhura7995 Ай бұрын

@@TheKalaxisI am very proud of him

@2l84t Ай бұрын

In your mind