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Accidental Discoveries in Medicine
Over the years, there have been many new advances in technology, food, and medicine. While things like the computer, the internet, and television were found to an extent on purpose; there have been a number of accidental discoveries in these areas as well. When thinking of accidental discoveries in the modern world, one may struggle to come up with anything. This could be that people are not educated with the origin of every-day items that are taken for granted. Take for example the chocolate chip cookie. The owner of the Toll House Inn was baking chocolate cookies when she ran out of baking chocolate. Still wanting to make the cookies, Mrs. Wakefield improvised and broke semi-sweet chocolate into chunks, thinking the chocolate would melt and mix together with the batter. Little did she know that the chocolate would not mix in, thus producing the popular chocolate chip cookie. Other accidental discoveries whose origins may not be well......

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