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Le Petomane
While swimming underwater near Marseilles one day at the age of twelve, Joseph P...
Guncotton
Though strictly forbidden by his wife from conducting experiments in their home,...
Serendippable!
One day in 1853, an annoying guest at a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, co...
Lakey Lane
William Plomer, visiting Birmingham for the first time, was intrigued by the des...
Mark Knopfler: Money for No...
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler was once asked about the origin of the line ...
Joyous Serendipity
"Once or twice Joyce dictated a bit of Finnegans Wake to Samuel Beckett, ...
Romance Brewing
Reese Witherspoon met her future husband - fellow actor Ryan Phillippe - at her ...
Nicolas Poussin: Serendipity
One day in his studio Nicolas Poussin, infuriated by his inability to produce a ...
Harrison Ford: In the Can
One day during the filming of Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark,...
Well-Rounded Actress
On the opening night of one of his plays, Alexandre Dumas was approached by a pr...
'21' Gin Salute?
Down on his luck, Michael Arlen, intent on drowning his sorrows, headed to New Y...
Squinty-Eyed Gilbert
Gilbert Gottfried, famed for his squinty-eyed persona, developed his distinctive...
Hold The Cream
The Spectator's Peregrine Worsthorne once discovered a curious side-effec...
Serendipity
Alexander Fleming's famous discovery of penicillin at St Mary's Hospital in 1928...
Alec Guinness: Mudlark
The high point of Jean Negulesco's The Mudlark (1950), was a rousing parl...
Sargent's Order
Having been commissioned to paint Teddy Roosevelt's portrait, John Singer Sargen...
Young Edison
In the spring of 1869, Thomas Edison, broke and jobless, visited a friend who wo...
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
Sid Grauman began construction on his sumptuous Chinese Theatre (at 6925 Hollywo...
Frances McDormand: Blood Si...
In 1984 Frances McDormand made her screen debut portraying Abby, a cheating wife...
Can-Can Do
Legendary football coach Knute Rockne, famed for his development of many revolut...
Pink Lemonade
How was pink lemonade first made by Pete Conklin in 1837? He used a bucket of wa...
Doppelgangmember?
The sculptor Lorado Taft left the Art Institute of Chicago one windy day and fou...
Wizard of Ak?
While working on a fantasy story one day, L. Frank Baum happened to spot a filin...
Tanning History
"The popularity of tanning can be traced to a single moment in 1923. After cruis...
Fahrenheit: Serendipity!
"Fahrenheit was born on this day in 1686," Leno reported on May 24th one year. "...
Wimpy Wahlberg
"Mark Wahlberg is terrified of sharks, even fake ones," the Examiner repo...
Andres Serrano & Christophe...
Some time after his paralysis (following a polo injury) Christopher Reeve was vi...
Lauren Bacall: The Look
In her autobiography, Lauren Bacall recalled the anxiety which gripped her durin...
Hershey Serendipity
While experimenting with magnetrons (devices which produce microwave radiation) ...
Good Year, Bad Life...
Despite his genius for innovation, Charles Goodyear (who, for example, opened Am...
Seuss Serendipity
"Sometimes you have luck when you are doodling," Dr. Seuss once recalled. "I did...
Prime Spirals
While yawning his way through a boring talk at a scientific meeting one day in 1...
Experimental Philosopher
As a young uneducated boy of sixteen, Joseph Henry one day decided to go back to...
Leonardo DiCaprio: Christening
Leonardo DiCaprio was christened in honor of Leonardo DaVinci - after his pregna...
Ray of Light
One day someone accidentally opened the door of Man Ray's darkroom. As a result,...
Serendipitoast?
According to the traditional account, the invention of Melba toast was a serendi...
Clint Eastwood: Casting Row...
One day in the late 1950s, Clint Eastwood, then a struggling actor, visited a fr...
Grateful Dead
The term 'Grateful Dead' derives from an Old English folk tale in which a travel...
Fire Medicine
A ninth-century Chinese alchemist made a serendipitous discovery one day while s...
Newton's Apple
At the age of 23, while relaxing on his mother's farm one day, Isaac Newton, by ...
Fair Profit
"I set up my first stall at a one-day fair at Axbridge, Somerset," Sir Billy But...
Tempest
Haydn once tested various arrangements of discords and harmonies on a piano in a...
Accidental Tourist
One day early in his career, Dirk Bogarde arrived for an audition at the BBC stu...
Heavenly Blooper
During a rehearsal of Puccini's Tosca one day, Maria Jeritza slipped and ...
Invention of Dry Cleaning
"It was an accident that lead to the invention of dry cleaning. A Frenchman, Jol...
Young Vin Diesel
"With friends, [at age 7, Vin Diesel] had broken into Manhattan's Theatre for th...
Jodie Foster: Sibling Rivalry
While working for a film producer, Jodie Foster's ambitious mother Brandy pushed...
Hannes Schneider: Schneider...
"One day, after taking a couple of particularly nasty falls, [legendary Austrian...
Haley Joel Osment: Sweepsta...
Haley Joel Osment got his start as an actor in a Pizza Hut commercial. (He was d...
Lang Hancock: Ironic Discovery
"Iron ore was considered to be in such short supply [in Australia] that for two ...
Cranberries Bounce
"Cranberries bounce. According to folklore, this discovery was made by John Webb...
Julia Sweeney: Pat
Julia Sweeney once revealed the inspiration behind her classic character - the a...
Michael Sveda: Cyclamate Se...
"Like many artificial sweeteners, the sweetness of cyclamates was discovered by ...
Casting Suzi Quatro
How was Suzi Quatro cast to play Leather Tuscadero on the classic sitcom "Happy ...
Garbage Picker
One day in the late 1960s, David Crosby urged a young singer to send a demo tape...
Zumba!
"It was a serendipitous slip. When Alberto Perez forgot the music tape for an ae...
Sunny Serendipity (long)
As a young actress Stefanie Powers was once given a pair of Italian sunglasses b...
Dom Perignon
One day in 1688, blind cellarmaster Dom Perignon inadvertently discovered champa...
Son of Pete?
One wintry day in 1905, 11-year old Frank Epperson accidentally left a glass of ...
Slim Shady: Serendipity
Eminem was once asked about the genesis of his famously evil alter-ego, Slim Sha...
Magnum, A.I.A.?
Tom Selleck discovered acting - and the meaning of serendipity - at the Universi...
Massive Discovery
In 1820, Captain Nataniel Brown Parker was out hunting for seals one day when he...
Candid Cagney
After seeing James Cagney in a Broadway production, Twentieth Century-Fox chief ...
Pilkington
Glass-maker Allistair Pilkington was washing dishes one day when he observed a f...
Burrs
Swiss engineer George de Mestrel returned from an excursion one day and found th...
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Though The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was loosely based on the activities o...
Saint-Exupery: Little Fellow
While having lunch with a publisher one day in 1941, famed French pilot, adventu...
Eureka Moment
The tyrant Hiero of Syracuse once approached Archimedes seeking a solution to an...
Lexan
One day in 1953 Daniel Fox, then a chemist working for General Electric, found t...
Threepenny Actor
After high school, Samuel L. Jackson went to Morehouse College with the intentio...
Young Jonathan Demme
When Jonathan Demme's father learned that Joseph P. Levine was staying in the ho...
Super Serendipity
"In 1982, a nasa nuclear engineer named Lonnie Johnson was working at home on a ...
Butterfly Effect
While working on a weather prediction problem one day in 1961, Edward Lorenz, us...
Weird Science
While experimenting with radioactive substances one day, Wilhelm Roentgen discov...
Piano Man
One day in 1969, Keith Carradine accompanied his half-brother, David, to an audi...
Curtains for Jack
"The first time Jack Buchanan appeared on the music-hall stage he 'got the bird....
Waffle Iron
While operating a waffle iron in his kitchen one morning in 1962, Bill Bowerman ...
Exciting Cleavage
One day in 1781, the French mineralogist Rene Just Hauy accidentally dropped a p...
Young Eliza Dushku
When Eliza Dushku said she had fallen into acting, she meant it literally. While...
Esquire Magazine
In November 1932, Chicago publisher David Smart and editor Arnold Gingrich began...
Young Erin Rocha
One day in 2003, a 16-year-old British schoolgirl named Erin Rocha visited a rec...
Velvet Underground
According to legend, Lou Reed once found a book about S&M (by Michael Leigh) on ...
Harrison Ford: Casting Call
"In 1965 Harrison got himself an interview with a casting director at Columbia. ...
Tim Roth: Made In Britain
"Cycling home from Soho one day, [Tim Roth] got a puncture, outside the Oval Hou...
Sticky Situation
One day in 1948, a Swiss engineer named George de Mestral found himself in a sti...
Tint of Brilliance
One day in 1856, an English schoolboy named William Henry Perkin, inspired by a ...
Wholio?
Though he began his professional life as a goalkeeper for Real Madrid, his caree...
Alchemist
In 1703, the German alchemist Johann Boettiger was imprisoned in the Albertsburg...
Lucky Strike
Jerry Lewis' remarkable success may be attributable in part to an anti-Semitic r...
Jon Voight: Pennies from He...
"For a year, Jon Voight struggled to find work, worried that his height (he's 6'...
Henny Youngman: Money
In 1990 Henny Youngman celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his "Take My Wife, Ple...
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