This news article discusses four government Ventures in the US that were Created by accident. The first is the Committee on Disposition of Useless Executive Papers, which was formed in 1889 to sort through and dispose of unnecessary documents but ended up running at a profit by selling the waste paper as kindling. The second is NORAD Tracks Santa, a program started in 1955 when a child accidentally called Colonel Harry Shoup's red phone asking for Santa Claus and gave him the idea to track Santa's location. The third is the Sonoma Persistent Surveillance Program, which was created after an engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was inspired by a surveillance satellite shown in the movie "Enemy of the State." Lastly, the Superfund program was established following the Love Canal disaster in New York.

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