Happy accidents have changed the world for good many times through history.

Such as nixtamalization — soaking corn in limewater, which of course gave us hominy (grits!) and tortillas. How did somebody think to do that? Nobody knows for sure, but it makes corn a lot more nutritious (although that’s probably not why whoever accidentally discovered it decided to do it again.)

I believe there’s a high probability that there are incredibly useful processes yet undiscovered — simple, basic things like nixtamalization — that someone from another planet who came here

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