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Another accidental discovery was Post-It Notes®. The 3-M Company (the Scotch tape people) were looking for a super-strong adhesive; instead, one of their experiments yielded this very low-tack adhesive instead. Shelved since it wasn't what they were looking for, it wasn't until a colleague of the inventor realized that a piece of paper with the adhesive on it would make a perfect, semi-permanent bookmark (yet easily removable) bookmark for his hymn book.
Taking advantage of 3-M's "permitted bootlegging" policy, he then worked to develop the idea. The yellow color was also a fluke, as the lab next-door to the Post-It team had only yellow scrap paper available for use.
Even then, when they were introduced in four markets in 1977 as "Press 'n Peel" notes, sales results were disappointing. It wasn't until 3-M literally gave them away, issuing free samples to consumers themselves, that they took off.
Every new product should be given away as samples. That's now known as "beta testing."
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Now Miss C, everyone knows the moon landing was fake.
It was filmed by Stanley Kubrick with assistance from
Walt Disney on a secret sound stage in Nevada's Area
51. He did it because in return he got an unlimited
budget for 2001, A Space Odyssey. Kubrick used a
process called Front Screen Projection; something that
had been around for a long time but which he perfected
to State of the Art (for that time). There were some
scenes that the technology had trouble creating.
Kubrick, being such a perfectionist, filmed those on
location, but everything else: Faked.
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