According to Richard Wiseman, a psychology professor at the University of Hertfordshire, people can create their own luck by just following these four simple principles:

1. Make contacts, be relaxed, and be open to new opportunities.

2. Listen to your intuition and gut feeling.

3. Expect good fortune.

4. Turn bad luck around by using different psychological techniques.

https://brightside.me/wonder-curiosities/10-lucky-discoveries-that-made-people-rich-491710/





1. “Royal One”
One lucky miner from Australia was collecting ordinary stones and found a big sparkling one at the bottom of his bucket. It looked nice so he took it home as a souvenir. 14 years later, he showed it to a specialist and found out that it was a very rare black opal worth more than $3 million. It was given the name “Royal One.”

2. Whale vomit
Charlie Naysmith, an 8-year-old-boy from the UK, found an unusual rock on the beach. After googling it with his father they found out it was a piece of ambergris, or whale vomit, worth $63,000. Ambergris is a very valuable ingredient in perfume production.

3. Wall of coins
While playing in an abandoned house in Pennsylvania, some local kids found several old coins near one of the walls. When their parents found out, they broke the wall and hundreds of coins fell out of it. There were $8,500 worth of ordinary coins and some rare coins valued at $200,000.

4. Golden nuggets
A local farmer from Australia was searching for something with a metal detector on the land around his home when he accidently detected and dug out some little nuggets of gold. He continued digging and found a 5.5 kg piece of gold that was worth $315,000.

5. Super glue
Super glue was accidently discovered when Harry Coover , an American chemist, and his team were trying to develop materials to make plastic gun sights. It became a very popular commercial product in 1985 and generated around to $2.5 billion.

6. “Hoxne Hoard”
Peter Whatling, a British farmer, asked his friend Eric Lawes to help him, using his home-made metal detector, to find his lost hammer. But instead of the hammer they found a wooden box with jewelry and coins worth about $15 million. Archeologists named this treasure the “ Hoxne Hoard ” and it was brought to the British Museum for display. Eric got a prize of $2.3 million, which he shared with Peter.

7. Penicillin
It was discovered by chance in 1928 by Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming. He came back home after a vacation and found a dirty dish full of bacteria and mold that he had forgotten to clean. It was then when he noticed that the mold actually killed the bacteria. Thanks to him forgetting to do his dishes, we have antibiotics today.

8. Microwave
An engineer named Percy Spencer was experimenting with an enemy-plane detector when he accidently discovered that magnetron can melt chocolate. This accidental product brought Raytheon (the industrial corporation where Spencer worked) about $25 billion.

9. Popsicles
Back in 1905 a teenager named Frank Epperson left a mixture of soda powder and water in a glass out in the cold with a stirring stick in it. 20 years later “ice lollipops” became really popular and Epperson became extremely rich.

10. Coca-Cola
One of the world’s most popular drinks was created by John Pemberton as a medicine against headaches. But his assistant accidently mixed its two main ingredients (coca leaves and cola nuts) with carbonated water. Which proves once again: you shouldn’t be afraid to experiment, if you want to get lucky.

wow this are really good

coca-cola story though

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Permit me to add #11 pls.
One "Buhari" like that. He has managed to undermine the collective interest of more than 150 million Nigerians, meanwhile, his cronies all around the universe are smiling to the bank every second.

NB: Some animals are far richer than 150 million Nigerians eg JAMB snake, also... Some animals are better valued and protected than the majority of Nigerians eg Fulani cows.

Nice one...

Interesting piece. Thank goodness for penicillin. Saved lives.

Nice

You forgot to mention Viagra.

Peter Dunn and Albert Wood were Pfizer researchers working on a drug that could treat high blood pressure and chest pain. They developed the drug which, instead of curing high pb, was discovered to increase blood flow into the pe'nis by opening the arteries in the p'enis.

The rest is history and that was how Pfizer hit a jackpot with the Viagra drug raking millions of dollars yearly.

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virud:
Permit me to add #11 pls.
One "Buhari" like that. He has managed to undermine the collective interest of more than 150 million Nigerians, meanwhile, his cronies all around the universe are smiling to the bank every second.

NB: Some animals are far richer than 150 million Nigerians eg JAMB snake, also... Some animals are better valued and protected than the majority of Nigerians eg Fulani cows.

I bet you'll commit suicide any day you are prevented from mentioning Buhari in the negative.

RoyalBlak007:
7. Penicillin
It was discovered by chance in 1928 by Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming. He came back home after a vacation and found a dirty dish full of bacteria and mold that he had forgotten to clean. It was then when he noticed that the mold actually killed the bacteria. Thanks to him forgetting to do his dishes, we have antibiotics today.

Not that type of dish. It was in fact a petri dish he left uncovered.

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kitaatita:


I bet you'll commit suicide any day you are prevented from mentioning Buhari in the negative.

What is suicide? Does it attract a capita punishment?

By the way, are you richer than that JAMB snake? Or is your life more valued than an average Fulani man's cow ? Just asking...

So I decided to get lucky myself by trying out something at home since they say charity begins at home.

I wrapped up some grass into a rectangular sized paper and lit it.

1st drag

2nd drag

3rd...... and I started hearing voices calling me.
Sounds pretty much like that of my mum.

That was how I carried myself by myself to the sitting room where mum was busy talking to someone over the phone.

On getting to her front with my experiment apparatus sandwiched between fingers in my left hand, I suddenly realized she never called me.


Now I'm in my room and mum is banging on the door.

Should I open or not.

I thought as much

lobell:


Not that type of dish. It was in fact a petri dish he left uncovered.

Nice

God, please pick my call o. You don't get like 10000 misses calls.

So In Conclusion, A Mistake Is A Blessing In Disguise...

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Nice. I like d cola story