34 Major Scientific Discoveries That Everyone Just Shrugged Off
If you want a scientific discovery to make you famous, you need two things to happen. First, said discovery has to be important enough to change the world as we know it. Second, it has to be pretty easy to explain to non-scientists. Your revolutionary take on quantum entanglement, it turns out, is actually a recipe for a pretty bad first date.
Should developing a treatment for Hashimoto’s disease carry the same, if not more, prestige than slapping a camera on a cellphone? Probably, but a whole lot more people have phones.
Luckily, a Redditor decided it was high time for these underappreciated scientific epiphanies to be celebrated, and people threw in the developments and data that blew their mind, even if they never seem to come up in regular conversation.
