People's Brilliant Ideas That Were Dumb In Retrospect

It's happened to us all. You wake up in the middle of the night with a brilliant idea. "This is going to change the world" you say to yourself, imagining the praise and riches you'll get for your wonderful, brilliant idea. "They'll likely make me president for this one" you think to yourself, spilling genius onto scratch paper. The next morning you look at your magnum opus. "Hamster Bacon" it reads. "Oh," you say,  realizing that this was another one of those genius ideas that were dumb upon review.

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