What Do The Following Have In Common?

[sp1814]

1. Post-It Notes 

2. The Rubik’s Cube 

3. Bailey’s Irish Cream 

4. The Heimlich Manoeuvre 

5. Connect 4

6. Skittles

7. The Volkswagen Golf 

If you know, you know - if you don't it's quite surprising.

 

[elliemay1]

They turn 50 this year

[Atheist]

All invented by Hungarians?

[jourdain2]

Did they all come about after experiments to find something else didn't work - but this  did?  Rather accidental offshoots.

[ichkeria]

I think the first answer is the correct one, much as I love the idea that a Hungarian invented Baileys!

I assume "Skittles" is the sweets not the game

[ichkeria]

"Did they all come about after experiments to find something else didn't work - but this  did?  Rather accidental offshoots."

That is a great idea, and I suggest we now think up possibilites for what the original idea might have been (!)

[sp1814]

The prize goes to elliemay1.

The full list:

https://tinyurl.com/yeejjd3j

[jourdain2]

Congratulations elliemay!!!✔

[jno]

ah, it's like Charlie Chaplin and Nintendo...

... but not like Cervantes and Shakespeare.