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[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 48 points 2 weeks ago

Tbf, some things are created as accidents or surprises.

Superglue, for example, was made by a guy from Kodak in an attempt to make a clear lining for cockpit windows.

[-] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 weeks ago

post it notes having so little adhesion was from an attempt to make a super adhesive glue

[-] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 27 points 2 weeks ago

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[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

“Man, this horse we melted sure is sticky! Wonder if that could be useful somehow?”

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

Meow you’re thinking like a corporate scientist!

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Science cat approved 😼🥼🔬

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

"who left this horse on the stove? It's all gooey and stuck to everything? Give it to Mikey and see how it tastes!"

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Aww Mikey dies every time he eats something we shoulda asked someone else

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm starting to think Mikey hasn't been alive all the times after the first time he died from whatever we fed him. Yeah, see? Here's that dead rat we found next to the rat poison two weeks ago. He didn't even chew it.

[-] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 2 weeks ago

Probably more like

"Ya think we can eat that hoof if we boiled it long enough?"

"Let's find out"

[-] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

I mean what else are you suppose to do with the old shoes?

But on a serious note, I do get curious how some of these things were discovered. For example, how did they learn that brains helped tan hides?

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 2 weeks ago

They probably left some brain on untanned hides and realized it did stuff.

[-] MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

That or my thought was they piled all the stuff in the hide to take back and realized something at that point, either way these thoughts always get me thinking how the Ancients found this stuff out.

[-] winkledinkle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno about your example, but most people throughout history didn't have the luxury of throwing food away. So yeah your milk is chunky and has blue spots, you eat it or starve.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago

One other way of saying "melt that horse" is "cook that horse."

I forget the exact recipe for hide glue, but I think it mostly is a process that involves soaking and heating hide with lime (not the fruit). Also materials that can be used in the production of leather.

Anyways, if you cook enough horse and you make enough horse leather in an area with lime, and you're observant enough, hide glue is sort of an inevitable discovery.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Which means there's a decent chance that someone ate glue before anyone used it to stick things together.

Maybe multiple people if it went like this:

A: I'm going to try this eats spoonfull

B: How is it?

A: Mmmm...!?

B: Oh he likes it, I'll try some, too!

C: Do you agree with A?

B: Mmmm...!?

A: Mmmm! Mmmmm!

D: Wow they really like it! Ok, everyone grab a spoon!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

"There's more than one way to melt this horse" is totally an idiom in the glue industry I promise.

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah that's fucked up. You don't have to melt the whole horse.

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

But it won't stand still in the pot long enough for us to just melt it's hooves.

[-] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's what the horsey nail clippers are for

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's like leaving fireworks half exploded. Sure you could but it's offensive to chemistrionicists.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

See also: the galaxy level weirdo who first had the idea of drinking the milk of other species 🫡

[-] Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

The single cave-father who made the difficult choice to grab a goat or watch his child die a slow and painful death of starvation: 😟

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hey, I'm not shaming him! Me and my homies are pro-weirdo. Hence the saluting 😁🫡

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

The goofus who figured out cheese

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

ADHD caveman put their milk away. Forgot about it a couple weeks. Hey, it's chunky and funky but still kinda edible.

I'm sure the the same dude invented beer. He soaked his grain for a couple of days to make gruel. Then later he was like, "Hey, guys!"

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Home?

Home?

It's just me.

... nobody ever sticks around.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sounds like you need to melt some horses, then you can make people stick around

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking Tim, no vision.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah dude. Fuck those long dogs. Throw another horse on the melter.

this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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