While smaller fish bones, like salmon bones, may not cause damage, chicken, beef, and pork bones most certainly will. When you put meat bones in your garbage disposal, they can damage its metal blades. They may chip them, create cracks, or break off part of the blades. They can also cause clogs by getting caught in the small moving parts of the disposal. Eventually, they'll end up clogging your pipes as well.
There are so many legends about famous dishes that were invented by accident. Ruth Wakefield thought she'd create a chocolate cookie by breaking up bits of a chocolate bar and folding them into her dough, but invented the chocolate chip cookie instead. Chocolate truffles may have been a happy accident, and butter likely came about by mistake as well. Basically, all the best foods are ones we wouldn't have without some clumsy person stumbling around a kitchen,