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|u/RealisticBarnacle115 - 2 hours
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|Inventions happen by accident!!
|u/PremiumOxygen - 1 hour
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|And no one I'm the history of the world ever had this idea before his
|mishap? It seems unlikely.
|u/kingsbreath - 1 hour
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|First to do it? No. First to capitalize on it? Maybe
|u/MaestroLogical - 1 hour
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|It was just never feasible as a product to be sold until that moment.
|In fact, I think the inventor in question didn't try to monetize the
|'discovery' for over 15 years. Freezing tech and railroads made it
|possible to sell them. Even then it'd be a few more decades before
|most homes had freezers, so it was just a novelty.
|u/Wellfooled - 1 hour
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|Every great idea seems simple after the fact.
|u/dexterthekilla - 1 hour
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|The early prototypes were test-sicles
|u/flower4556 - 1 hour
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|Powder soda mix? Like kool-aid or something?
|u/sandm000 - 28 minutes
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|Like alka-seltzer with flavor instead of aspirin
|u/amtheredothat - 27 minutes
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|Holy shit. Why isn't that still available?!
|u/refugefirstmate - 38 minutes
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|From the article: >This origin story is charming, if somewhat
|apocryphal (sources differ on the details
|u/Adventurous-Start874 - 1 hour
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|That's a discovery.
|u/Landlubber77 - 1 hour
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|"Gentlemen, I have made a discovery of monumental proportions, [but you
|may ask me precisely zero (degrees Celsius) questions about how."](https
|://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1goorim/til_of_mellified_man_
|a_medicinal_substance/lwkk7mw/)
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