Finding hope...continued

So as a little continuation of the last story, it got me thinking about things that were discovered by accident, off the top of my head i can think of the following:

• Viagra: Developed in Cork as a heart treatment drug, until they tried to figure out why all the guys outside were walking around with mad erections after breathing the extract fumes
• Australia
• Dynamite 
• Corn flakes  

• Penicillin , This was the huge difference between world war 1 and World war 2, it saved countless lives) Published reports credit Fleming as saying: 

  "One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did."

I couldn't have said it better myself, thats the exact point i want to make, you dont get what you want, you get what you need

Ice cream cones (Popsicles too!)

Some more accidental discoveries here and some more here