‎Fascinating Fails - Apple TV

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A series about fails in history that have resulted in major discoveries and inventions.

2023 · 19 min

EPISODE 1

How To Accidentally Invent A Color

The substance that colors most of our modern world was invented…by accident.

18 min · Dec 4, 2023
EPISODE 2

How 1800s Parties Discovered Anesthesia

The only reason we have general anesthesia today is because of a Victorian party drug.

18 min · Jan 8, 2024
EPISODE 3

How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets

Is it bird poop? Is it a bomb? Nope. It’s the Big Bang! A hiss heard only by accident.

16 min · Feb 5, 2024
EPISODE 4

How To Accidentally Save the World

How did a famous lab accident end up saving more than half a billion lives…and is it true?

19 min · Mar 4, 2024
EPISODE 5

Invasion of the Toxic Toads: Nature's Most Successful Failure

How do these toads keep failing upward, and what can we do about it?

17 min · Apr 1, 2024
EPISODE 6

Allergies: Why Does Your Body Hate You?

Did you know that a completely failed experiment helped us to understand our allergies?

18 min · May 13, 2024