Hello fellas, the following are some of the things that are created accidentally by the creators when they wanted to do something else.

1. The Microwave Oven :

• The engineer was doing his job as usual when he noticed that the candy bar in his pocket had melted. 
• Quickly Spencer realized that it was the magnetrons that were causing this phenomenon. 
• By 1945, he had filed a patent for his metal cooking box powered by microwaves.

2. Chocolate Chip Cookies :

• Ruth Graves Wakefield, co-owner of the Toll House Inn, was preparing some chocolate cookies for her guests when she realized that she was out of baker’s chocolate. 
• Thinking on her feet, Wakefield decided to chop up a block of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate, assuming that it would melt and spread evenly throughout the batter.
• Instead, what came out of the oven was the very first batch of chocolate chip cookies.

3. Matches:

• In 1826, chemist John Walker he accidentally scraped a stick coated in chemicals across his hearth and found that it caught fire.
• Walker’s “Friction Lights,” as he called them, were originally made out of cardboard, but eventually he switched over to using wooden splints and sandpaper.

4. Vaseline:

• Robert Augustus Chesebrough decided to head to the town where the product had been discovered to play around with it a bit.
• While there, Chesebrough observed that the men drilling the petroleum would use a byproduct of the process on their skin to soothe and heal cuts and burns.
• Later, he turned this observation into the product known today as Vaseline.

5. Bubble Wrap:

• Engineers Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes did invent bubble wrap on purpose. But when they made it, the intended use for the product was all wallpaper, not as packing material.
• when their bubbly wallpaper proved to be unsuccessful the two entrepreneurs decided to pivot and market their product instead as greenhouse insulation and later in 1960 as protective packaging. 

Birds don’t age like we do ….

As humans, we’re accustomed to using visual hints to guess the age of someone.

The neighbor’s dog with flecks of gray fur and a stiff walk is obviously getting up in years.

That huge gnarled tree in the park must have been there for decades.

But Birds are different. They don’t get gray ,they don’t get bigger with each passing year, they don’t leave growth rings for us to count.

In fact, once most birds develop their adult plumage, they essentially become impossible to age.

The reality that birds don’t show physical signs of aging creates a challenge for understanding how long they live.

Many birds live much longer than we might expect. Some expects say that birds can live up to 120 years and more..

Here are some characteristics that can help us to guess which species are likely to be longer-lived:

1. Number of chicks: Birds with longer lifespans often have fewer young, while those with shorter lifespans tend to have more.
2. Years to reach adulthood: Shorter-lived species tend to reach adulthood more quickly than longer-lived species.
3. Life on the ground: Birds that live in the nest on the ground have often adapted for shorter lifespans than those that live higher up, such as in the shelter of the tree canopy.

Socratea exorrhiza is a palm native to rainforests in tropical Central and South America. This plant is nicknamed as the walking palm.

The tree supposedly “walks” from shade to sunlight by growing roots in the direction it wants to travel and then allowing the old roots to lift into the air and die.

Some say the process takes a couple of years while one paleo biologist suggests the tree moves two or three centimeters per day.

In a journal of The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Dr. Bodley reported that the palm uses its roots to “walk away” from its germination point if another tree falls on the seedling and knocks it over.

This way, the tree can move away from obstacles that are major hazards for immature palms. 

The walking palm remains a strange “miracle” from nature !