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Do Mistakes Lead To Discoveries?
Do mistakes lead to discoveries?

I think that mistakes do lead to discoveries like, when Percy Spencer was standing near the Magnetron and his candy bar was melted then realized that the Magnetron was heating the area up then, he asked for some popcorn kernels and put them close to the Magnetron and they popped minutes later, so then the microwave was created about 20 years later through many mistakes. In “Lost Cities, Lost Treasure” a man named Heinrich Schliemann was digging in the ground of a turkish city, seeking the lost city of Troy and when he was he did not have the money to excavate the area. Then, he found a british archaeologist named Frank Calvert and he owned a site that might hold the lost city of Troy and he also did not have

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