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1. "This was not what I expected", could have said an ancient Greek philosopher. Instead he famously exclaimed "I've found it!". What did he find out while preparing to take a bath?
2. According to popular history, an English scientist started ruminating when he saw an apple fall down. "This is not what I expected", you'll think, when I ask you which scientist based a number of results on experiments after seeing an apple falling.
3. Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard had a company of his troops digging fortifications, when they found "not what I expected", as he may have thought at the time. What was unearthed in 1799 and greatly advanced our knowledge of ancient history?
4. William Henry Perkin developed, in 1856, the mauve dye named after him (Perkin's mauve). But he may have thought "this is not what I expected", for he was looking for a cure against malaria. What was he trying to synthesize?
5. His thoughts have not been recorded, but may well be something like "I desperately needed some days off work. But when I returned, I noticed something I did not expect." What did this scientist find in 1928, other than the fact he had forgotten to do the dishes?
6. Roy Plunkett may have said "I thought to use up all of the gas, but part of it has been transformed to a white slippery substance- certainly not what I expected". What did Roy Plunkett accidentally discover in 1938 when experimenting with gases to cool down a refrigerator?
7. In 1942 Harry Wesley Coover and his team at the Goodrich company were experimenting with plastics, when they made cyanoacrylate (super glue). "Not what I expected", Coover could have said. What was the application Coover was really searching for?
8. Another scientist could have thought "melting chocolate? This was certainly not what I expected from my experiments on radar". Who discovered molten chocolate in his pockets? In 1945 he patented his discovery (not the chocolate itself, but the application which could be used to this effect).
9. In 1965, James Schlatter worked for GD Searle and Company. When he accidentally spilled a chemical product he was working on as a cure for gastric ulcer, he tasted the spilled products. "Not what I expected", he may have thought. Which food additive did he accidentally discover?
10. "The current application of this drug is not what I expected", researchers working for Pfizer in the eighties or nineties may have thought. While they searched for a medication for hypertension, the blue pills they finally came up with are prescribed for another medical condition. What is the most common brand name for these blue pills containing sildenafil?
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