Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace had a room with a rotating ceiling that dropped perfume and rose petals down on its inhabitants
Naval engineer Richard James accidentally invented the slinky in 1943 when he knocked a spring off a shelf
The Hypogeum – this 5000 year old underground temple in Malta was discovered by accident and contains 6000 skeletons
Alexander Graham Bell developed a metal detector as a last ditch effort to locate a bullet lodged in the chest of American President James Garfield in 1881
Whitechapel Bell Foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in U.K, known for the “Liberty Bell” and Big Ben
The first flight attendants were all registered nurses, this requirement disappeared when many nurses left to enlist during WWII