A lab accident. A church choir. A billion-dollar idea.

Spencer Silver was hunting for super-glue at 3M. 

Instead, he created a weak, weird adhesive that his colleagues dismissed as junk. 

Years later, Art Fry - frustrated by falling hymnal bookmarks - saw potential where others saw failure.

Post-it Notes weren't invented. 

They were discovered in the collision between scientific mistake and human frustration.

Now, 100 million people transform ideas with a simple yellow square. One unexpected moment changed how we communicate.

Genius lives in the spaces between mistake and imagination.