21 Tiny FAILs That Made a World of Difference

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  • 01
    Fun fact meme about how Hannibal lost nearly half of his army when he stabbed his cane into the snow to check the depth and started a massive avalanche.
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  • 02
    Fun fact about how the Mars Orbiter crashed because engineers used inches instead of centimeters.
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  • 03
    fun fact meme about how Giovanni Schiaparelli observed channels on the moon but a typo made it seem he observed canals and this prompted speculation that aliens built those canals.
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  • 04
    Hessians lost at Trenton because a warning note made it to Johann Gottlieb Rall but he never opened it, letter was found on his dead body.
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  • 05
    Meme about the 1989 story of how Gunter Schabowski held a press conference that people confused to imply the Berlin wall was going to open up and it turned into that when so many people showed up.
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  • 06
    Fun fact about how the bay of pigs invasion was messed up because of the time zone difference between Cuba and Nicaragua
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  • 07
    Fun fact about how the di Haviland Comet had square windows that popped out in flight which is why airplane now have rounded windows.
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  • 08
    Strange fun fact of how a delayed coal delivery caused a massive explosion.
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  • 09
    Bell employee that typed a 6 instead of a D and it messed up phone service for millions of people.
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  • 10
    Meme about how Truman misunderstanding of the word MOKUSATA led him to drop atomic bombs on Japan
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  • 11
    Misplaced decimal space made spinach a super food that people still thing is true to this day.
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  • 12
    How Sultan Mehmed conquered Constantinople because of someone who forgot to lock the gate.
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  • 13
    How jst one missing switch led to the 1977 New York City riots.
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  • 14
    Story of how 492 people died in Coconut Grove in Boston because of the door hinges.
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  • 15
    Story of the wicked bible which had adultery mandatory by accident in 1631
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  • 16
    1969 Soviet N1 rocket destroyed by a single loose bolt.
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  • 17
    Story of how in 1962, an $80 million satellite was lost because of a single line over an R in the code was missing.
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  • 18
    Story of how a missing key to where the binoculars were kept might have been what crashed the Titanic.
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  • 19
    fun fact about how Germany might have lost Normady because Erwin Rommel was off that weekend to celebrate his wife's birthday.
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  • 20
    Meme about fun fact of a stealth bomber that crashed because of moisture buildup in air pressure sensor.
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  • 21
    Fun fact about how Lithium 7 caused a massive blast at Bikini Atoll in 1954 which obliterated the island.
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