5 Foods That Were Invented By Complete Accident

From chocolate chip cookies to potato chips, some of our favorite foods exist only because someone messed up spectacularly in the kitchen. Join us as we count down five delicious accidents that changed culinary history forever—and made someone very rich in the process.

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The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876

On March 3, 1876, Mrs. Allen Crouch was making soap in her yard when meat started raining from the sky. For the next several minutes, chunks of fresh flesh covered her property while the sky remained ...

8 Aug 14min

Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle of the Currents

In the 1880s, two brilliant inventors waged war over which electrical system would power America—and things got seriously weird. From Edison electrocuting an elephant to prove his point, to Tesla ligh...

18 Jul 14min

The Great Emu War of 1932

In 1932, Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to fight an invasion of 20,000 emus destroying farmland in Western Australia. What sounds like a joke became one of history's most embarras...

27 Mai 13min