💡 Simplas
Category: Intellectual Property (page 72 of 156)
🥂 Brandy
📰 A Dutch shipmaster in the 16th century used heat to concentrate wine in order to make it easier to transport, with the idea of adding water to reconstitute it when he arrived. It turned out concentrated wine is better than watered-down wine. Called ‘Burnt wine,’ or ‘brandewijn’
💊 Penicillin (antibiotics)
👩 Botox
📰 Alastair and Jean Carruthers were using small doses of a deadly toxin to treat ‘crossed eyes’ eyelid spasms and other eye-muscle disorders in 1987, but they noticed an interesting side effect – wrinkles magically disappeared.
🎈Chewing gum
📰 In 1870, Thomas Adams was experimenting with chicle, the sap from a South American tree, as a substitute for rubber. After mounting failures, a piece into his mouth. He liked it!
ℹ️ Source: https://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/10-accidental-discoveries-put-to-good-use/
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