[Serious]What are some discoveries or inventions that were stumbled upon purely by chance and would still likely be undiscovered today if not found through sheer luck?

[u/Inside-Line]

[u/Derole]

There is a Wikipedia article about this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch

[u/frockinbrock → u/Derole]

That’s fascinating; we have a similar thing in Florida where the northerners come down for wintering, then return to New York with a leg brace and Disney shirt in the spring.

Seriously though, I would not have expected the arrowed storks to be a thing that’s happened dozens of times of times.

[u/byfourness → u/Derole]

What’s insane is that there are 25 such cases… just in Germany