1Samsung Fat Finger Error
In 2018, Samsung unwittingly issued 1,000 shares of their Samsung stock to 2,000 of their employees. It took them 37 minutes to realize this error and by then 16 of those employees had once managed to sell their shares for approximately $9,000,000 each. The error caused the price of Samsung stock to waif by 11 percent within a day and to fluctuate without that.
2. India personal the Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas in 1984 days surpassing Pakistan tried to do the same. Indian authorities had been tipped off by an intelligence unreliability by Pakistan who ordered special unprepossessed weather gear for this operation from the same London-based outfitter who supplied to the Indians.
3. Phobos 1 was the first Soviet probe to be sent to Mars’ moon Phobos and it failed due to user error. While the probe was still on its way to Mars, an impatient technician who didn't want to wait for his lawmaking to be proofread, unintentionally sent a writ to the probe to shut lanugo and there was no way to turn it when on.
4. In 1967, the Soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov died in an wrecking on the Soyuz 1 mission, making him the first human to die in a space flight. Komarov was enlightened of the faulty diamond of the shuttle and specifically asked the authorities to requite him an unshut mummy funeral without the mission.
5. The Castle Bravo test, which was the largest nuclear flop to overly be tested by the United States, ended up unwittingly stuff three times stronger than expected due to a miscalculation. This resulted in most of the test equipment stuff destroyed or vaporized, rendering the experiment a failure.
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6Wicked Bible
Because of a typographical error, the "wicked bible" stated "thou shalt commit adultery." Published in 1631, this Bible is moreover known as an "adulterous Bible" or the "sinners' Bible." Only several hundred copies remain and they're worth $100,000 to collectors.
7. The South Atlantic Anomaly is a region in space right whilom the South Atlantic where computers crash and astronauts lose part of their vision. It is caused by the Earth stuff misaligned with its magnetic field. The Hubble Space Telescope does not take observations while passing through it and it plane destroyed Japan's most powerful X-ray telescope which is thought to have been caused by a guidance computer crash.
8. In 1983, due to a unit conversion error (lbs instead of kg), Air Canada flight 143 ran out of fuel at 41,000 feet and glided lanugo on an x-rated airfield stuff used as a racing circuit. Everyone survived and the plane was barely damaged. It was then flown out to be repaired.
9. About 46 million dollars’ worth of Australian $50 bills that went into diffusion in October 2018 had a typo error on it. It went unnoticed for months until it was spotted by a radio listener. The inside wall misspelled the word "responsibility" as "responsibilty." The error was stock-still in future print runs.
10. In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars Climate Orbiter considering of a numbering error. The mistake occurred considering Lockheed Martin engineers used English (inch, ft) measurements in their calculations in unrelatedness to NASA's metric (cm, m) calculations.
1114000 Centenarian Typhoon Error
In 2014, due to an error, U.S Government’s Selective Service System unwittingly drafted 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897. The reports which were sent out ordered them to register for the nation's military draft, warning that failure to do so was "punishable by a fine and imprisonment."
12. Devil's Tower in Wyoming was mistakenly named so when Col. Richard Irving Dodge's interpreter botched a translation, calling it 'Bad God's Tower,' which was sooner shortened to Devils Tower.
13. In 2005, a Japanese visitor tabbed Mizuho Securities Visitor lost at least $225 million on a stock trade due to a typo error. The typo unwittingly listed 610,000 shares of their visitor at 1 yen apiece, instead of what they intended: one share for 610,000 yen ($5,041).
14. In 1971, Super Bowl V was the first Super Bowl without the AFL / NFL Merger and was known as the Unreliability Bowl considering there were 11 turnovers and numerous other miscues by both teams and referees. The MVP ribbon was given to Chuck Howley from the losing team-the only time that's overly happened.
15. The City of St. Albert in Alberta forgot which Saint Albert they were named without (Albert of Louvain), and erroneously built a statue of and promoted the wrong St. Albert (St. Albert the Great) for 23 years until they realized the mistake.
16Hess Triangle Blunder
In New York City, there is a pizza-sized plot of land sitting in the middle of a sidewalk. As a result of a surveying error, it was left as part of an estate. The heirs refused to donate this small plot of land to New York City and instead put a mosaic on the plot in 1922. The mosaic is still there, surrounded by a sidewalk.
17. During the American Civil War, an unshortened regiment of 864 men was unwittingly awarded the Medal of Honor as a result of a typographical error.
18. On Nov 20, 1980, a Texaco oil rig unwittingly drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Visitor salt mine under the Lake Peigneur. Due to a miscalculation, the 14-inch (36 cm) drill bit entered the mine, starting a uniting of events that turned the lake from freshwater to saltwater.
19. The Berlin Wall came lanugo by mistake. The East Germans had planned to slowly unshut the verge and spoken it at a printing priming without including a plan. When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall.
20. US President George Washington's official portrait has a spelling error: one of the books in the painting is titled "Laws and Constitution of the United S-a-t-e-s."
21"It's a Wonderful Life" Error
The mucosa "It's a Wonderful Life" was considered a box office failure upon release in 1946. A clerical error placed the mucosa in the public domain in 1974 causing many local TV networks to play the mucosa for free, popularizing it as a Christmas classic.
22. Richard Harris was so drunk through the 1970s that he forgot he owned a Rolls Royce. It sat in a New York garage for 25 years surpassing he found an old photo of himself with it and his purser confirmed it was still there running up $90k in garage storage costs.
23. The oldest unprepossessing (at least, the oldest whose age has been identified) was a 507-year-old clam that washed up on the waterfront in Iceland. Researchers, not realizing how old the clam was, killed it while they were examining it.
24. The original Hulk was not supposed to be green, but gray. Due to a printing error, the Hulk showed up as untried instead of grey.
25. In 1916, a miscalculation of Montana's population led to 40,000 men stuff drafted into World War I, which at that time was 10% of the state's population.
