→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Teflon was Invented by Accident https://youtu.be/4FsYvD27POA?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k Who Really Invented Duct Tape https://youtu.be/JopYDWPLogo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: There were actually two accidents that lead to the invention of the Post-It note. The first was by Spencer Silver. According to the former Vice President of Technical Operations for 3M Geoff Nicholson (now retired), in 1968, Silver was working at 3M trying to create super strong adhesives for use in the aerospace industry in building planes. Instead of a super strong adhesive, though, he accidentally managed to create an incredibly weak, pressure sensitive adhesive agent called Acrylate Copolymer Microspheres. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/post-it-notes-were-invented-by-accident/ Sources: http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/post-it.asp http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/frysilver.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2010/11/16/how-post-it-notes-have-stuck-to-our-history-and-culture.html http://www.thejanuarist.com/why-are-post-it-notes-yellow/ http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2010/jun/27/post-it-notes-were-invented-by-accident/?print=1 http://www.inventsai.com/blog.php?id=15 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-it_note http://www.post-it.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Post_It/Global/About/History/ http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/post_it_note.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesive http://www.specialchem4adhesives.com/home/editorial.aspx?id=2171 http://www.google.com/patents?id=tPIrAAAAEB