What Is Serendipity? A discovery made by chance

By mozzer, April 6, 2006 in General Discussion

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Posted April 6, 2006

Serendipity is a word used to describe a discovery made by chance. For example Georges de Mestral was looking a plants and noticed how hooks on the plant caught the loops of a fluffy object. He then developed this idea to create Velcro. These simple things are mainly what the basis of human society is based on. Things we weren't looking for but found.

The word was first coined by Horace Walpole. He used it to when talking about people who discovered things by accident.

Has anyone spotted this word or actually occuring in their life?

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