10 Accidental Inventions That Sound Fake But Were Real

A melted candy bar, a glue that stuck too well, a spring that fell off a shelf and a messy desk that saved millions of lives. These 10 famous inventions were never supposed to exist, and every story is real. Which one surprised you the most? 👇 0:00 Intro 0:26 The Melted Candy Bar 1:18 The Glue That Was Too Sticky 2:15 The Spring That Walked 3:07 The Sweet Dinner Roll 3:54 The Failed Glue That Became Post-it Notes 4:50 The Empty Tank 5:44 The Teenager Who Invented a Color 6:35 The Wrong Resistor 7:24 The Glowing Screen 8:15 The Messy Desk More from the series: 10 Historical Events That Sound Fake But Were Real    • 10 Historical Events That Sound Fake But W...   Sources: IEEE Spectrum and Lemelson-MIT (microwave oven, Percy Spencer), Lemelson-MIT and UPI (Harry Coover, super glue), Smithsonian Magazine and Lemelson-MIT (Slinky), Science History Institute (saccharin, Teflon, mauve, Alexander Fleming), Minnesota Historical Society MNopedia and 3M (Post-it Notes), Science Museum Group (William Perkin), University at Buffalo and MIT Technology Review (Wilson Greatbatch, pacemaker), American Physical Society and NobelPrize.org (X-rays), American Chemical Society (penicillin). Music: "Gymnopedie No 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... #inventions #history #science #didyouknow #truestories