From chocolate chip cookies to potato chips, some of our favorite foods exist only because someone messed up spectacularly in the kitchen. Join us as we count down five delicious accidents that changed culinary history forever—and made someone very rich in the process.

In 1932, Australia deployed soldiers armed with machine guns to fight an invasion of 20,000 emus destroying farmland in Western Australia. What sounds like a joke became one of history's most embarrassing military operations, complete with tactical retreats, media mockery, and the emus decisively winning. Discover how flightless birds defeated the Australian army and became legendary guerrilla fighters.