10 of the Costliest Typos Ever

[@user-pc7xq6dz2i]

The guy who sold his NFT for $3,000 still got $3,000 more than it was worth

[@Sierrahtl]

When the power goes off nft means nothing..

[@ReaverPrime]

Tripler Army Hospital is a massive medical facility on a hill in Honolulu, Hawaii. It stands out greatly because its painted bright pink. The reason why is because when it was first built, the person that ordered the paint messed one number in the paint's NSN (national stock number). However, once the order arrived and they realized the mistake, they decided to keep it because A) It made Tripler stick out as a unique landmark, and B) It would have been a huge hassle to return that much paint.

[@christineparis5607]

I love that!!

[@ravertaking6343]

When I was stationed there we Navy folks fondly called it Crippler Army Hospital.

[@ReaverPrime]

@@ravertaking6343 We did in the army too. My daughter was born there and her mother was so scared because it had a reputation...

[@mimidebrose]

I googled the hospital. It is massive and very pretty also. 🎀

[@Lombardio]

@@ravertaking6343 my father-in-law (navy) calls it the pink palace of pain.

[@alanm.4298]

Remember before banks had ATMs and a human being handled your deposits? One time I went through my bank's drive through to deposit my pay check. I didn't check the receipt immediately, but later noticed the teller had deposited my account number instead of the actual amount of the check. Being that the account number was a fairly long string of numbers, I was a multi-millionaire for a very brief time until the bank discovered and corrected their mistake. Damn!

[@pamelamorrisonn]

Lol

[@GimmeJimmy23]

They must have had some serious stuff on their mind!

[@nuru666]

Just for the laughs alone I wish they'd never noticed the mistake, I always love hearing about banks losing their ill gotten gains :D

[@ericthompson3982]

I once trained at a martial arts school for over a year before anyone one there noticed that their business cards advertised that they taught marital arts...

[@triciac.5078]

Friends are copy editors and found a famous restaurant in NYC was selling a leg of lamp for years. Oops

[@ericthompson3982]

@@triciac.5078 Heh. I used to be a copy editor it's either a life of perpetual comedy or a living nightmare. Sometimes both.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

I’m still seeking marital arts 🎭

[@francesbacon7825]

I remember the ad half page where in bold type it read “ shits in every color “. It was for shirts.

[@thekwjiboo]

@@tomtheplummer7322 "hi I'm here to learn marital arts" "Welcome, today we're learning a straight punch" "Wait, what?"

[@brianarbenz1329]

A newspaper in Green Bay, Wisconsin meant to type the large bold headline: "Thompson's pen is a sword" for its lead story on how Governor Tommy Thompson had vetoed so many bills. Unfortunately, or hilariously, they didn't leave space between "pen" and "is," so readers started their day by picking up the morning paper off the porch and learning details about their governor's phallus.

[@ProgressiveSolutions]

My favorite expensive typo was the case of Mariner 1. This rocket was launched on July 22, 1962, and was supposed to do a flyby of Venus. Unfortunately, a few minutes after liftoff, it went off course and had to be destroyed. The problem turned out to be a missing "overbar" - basically a hyphen placed over a letter - in the computer code for the guidance system, causing the rocket to veer off course. It cost NASA $80 million (about $760 million in today's dollars).

[@michaelgallagher3640]

He did a Mega Project on it I think.

[@macaylacayton2915]

misplaced overbar made NASA lose that much money? just damn

[@chadayd]

If you watch every video that Simon releases you get crazy deja vu. Happens a lot.

[@jscotthatcher380]

"NFTs are big business these days..." maybe when the script was written. 😸

[@rdspam]

Ironically, the error price may soon be overpaying.

[@chrisplunkett2814]

I've had lots of real bargains from eBay when people have dropped the price by a lot because the item wasn't selling.If they took just a few seconds to check the spelling (they have the Internet rightin front of them) they'd realise it wasn't selling because they spelt it wrong and people typing in the correct spelling just weren't seeing it in the listings.I always search under the correct spelling and other possible versions of this when looking for eBay bargains now.

[@skwervin1]

When I was a kid in the 1970s, in Perth Western Australia, the government run telecommunication company Telecom stuffed up a whole bunch of phone bills by moving the decimal point one spot to the right so a bill for $30 became $300. My parents received one of these bills and my dad almost had a heart attack. It wasn't clear how only certain bills got stuffed up, but they ended up having to not pay the bill at all. After that dad was paranoid about the phone bill and the government was left with egg on its face. I remember dad pulling out all of the bills from previous quarters and years which were all about the same, then you had this one. Some legal fun and games before it was sorted. This was in the days of trunk and operater connected calls where you would book an interstate call at time X , no direct dialling like we have now. There developed a joke that they would take the number off the bus travelling past their window, multiply it by the temperature in Celsius, the subtract the date to get your bill value!

[@jademoon7938]

This is why I stay away from numbers. Don't give me numbers lol. I'll find you a typo in any book you hand me but don't ask me to remember numbers. The other week I brought my dog somewhere and wanted to leave him inside so the door code was like 7652 and I was getting SO frustrated I couldn't get in and I was late so I called someone to give me the code and I was like "WTF that is what I was doing!!" Turns out nope. Lol. I was putting in like 7562 and did not notice. I swear I was born dyslexic and because my parents started me reading early (like we read the hobbit when I was 5), I got over it before it mattered, but they aren't strong with numbers either so I didn't get that same experience and now I can't read numbers straight. Nothing is more frustrating than failing a maths test only to see you got all the points for showing your work but you failed because all the answers were wrong and you can see all the giant red circles around where you flipped the numbers lol. Don't trust me with numbers!

[@shifty1927]

There used to be a painter in my area called Jack of Arts and on his work van he used some stupid font so it looked like Jack o Farts 🤣

[@willmfrank]

A recent memo about the company's uniform dress code told us that we were required to wear navy blue plants.

[@spoonbendingspacemonkey]

When a comma can mean life or death: Let's go eat kids! Let's go eat, kids! 😁

[@ProgressiveSolutions]

How to cook crack and clean crab: Step 1, use commas.

[@BrandyHoelscher]

I had a student give me a shirt with that this year for teacher appreciation :)

[@mrmojomajestic8317]

Hired a movie (back when there was VHS and Blockbuster was still a business), got home and opened the case only to realise it was the wrong movie it the right case. Took it back to the store and when they looked it up they told me the movie wasn't on my account. Turns out the girl had entered the right surname, but placed it under another account.

[@bhgtree]

And of course typos are as old as writing/printing itself, as the publisher of 'The Wicked Bible' knows.

[@willmfrank]

Left the word "not" out of "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Classic.

[@BasementBerean]

Then there's the accidental payment in 2021 by Citigroup of 900 million dollars toward Revlon's loans, but that wasn't a typo, but a wrong box checked or unchecked. So, that was a "clicko" but not a typo.

[@RadioactiveSherbet]

So, Citi accidentally "forgave" $900 million in a corporate loan?

[@nunyabidness117]

Stupid people do far more damage than dishonest people. With dishonest people you anticipate their objectives and take precautions but stupid people do damage jus because they're stupid.

[@christophersines8238]

One time this lawyer in New Mexico made a mistake on some paperwork for a bank and cost them lots of time and money. Turned out it wasn’t a typo but his brother had manipulated the documents. But that was never proven in court.

[@asabovesobelow4180]

I’m from Carlsbad New Mexico and my grandfather worked at WIPP when that incident happened. The plant shut down for over a year while the feds came to investigate.

[@kodowdus]

A different but related event: In 2003, a translator with the U.K.'s GCHQ leaked a top secret memo that was published in the Observer revealing that the U.S. government planned to apply pressure on members of the U.N. Security Counsel to pass a war resolution justifying the invasion of Iraq. U.S. journalists discredited the memo as being fake on the grounds that it contained British spellings of words that are spelled differently in the U.S., but it turned out that the wording of the original memo had actually been altered by a spell-checker prior to publication.

[@MarijaEnchantix]

The number 10 is called Lazarus Heist. BBC radio made a whole 10 part podcast about this, going into great detail.

[@BuzzKiller23]

That thumbnail is brilliant

[@nodiggity9472]

I once almost applied for the job of an "Experienced Dog Wanker needed, 2 hours a day"

[@Foolish188]

Was it at a zoo? Zoos often have to collect sperm from endangered species. And yes, in most cases,, they do it by hand.

[@nodiggity9472]

@@Foolish188 No, some old blokey. Needed his scabby Lurcher walking every day.

[@MsEsquire83]

What about errors that end up INCREASING value? Misprinted/offset coins, etc

[@bobsmith-ru7xp]

I was born in 1998 but the biggest memory I have of the yellow pages is my dad using a phone book that was hanging below a pay phone in a waterproof case to find a number that he proceded to call on his old flip phone.

[@Foolish188]

My hometown pays a local store to maintain a payphone outside. I talked to the employee who I saw emptying the coin-op. He said they collect the money a couple of times a year. It had one quarter in it.

[@LordArchive]

United States congress had a big issue due to a comma. The proposed to make banana trees tax exempt, but it was written 'banana, trees' making both bananas and any sort of tree tax exempt.

[@heathergarnham9555]

One year my local newspaper insisted that on ANZAC day people were laying reefs at the cenotaph

[@kineticdeath]

I'll be honest with you, some years ago I literally wrote the book on typos but sadly it was turned down for publication. "Too many mistakes".

[@kahnu893]

#5 Would the insurance company have paid out the claim if not socially pressured to? Not a chance! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@svensvensson627]

Look up LOCUM,, a realestate company in Sweden. The put up billbords everywhere. They thought they were funny and spelled I♥️cum hahaha

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

The Pebble Watch is not the biggest Kickstarter campaign ever. That would be Brandon Sanderson's 4 Secret Book drop at almost 42 million dollars.

[@rdspam]

“By September 2021, Kickstarter campaigns had… the biggest campaign was…”. This is accurate.

[@kathleenr4047]

The Sanderson kickstarte was pretty recent. It was IN 2022. It is very possible that the research for this Top Ten, and possibly the taping (before editing) was done prior to the Sanderson kickstarter.

[@davidhiatt1486]

I once paid for a $50 money order, and got a $500 money order in return. Insurance got paid for the whole year. 😁

[@JeffKing310]

There’s something fitting that two industries essentially wiped out by the internet (travel agents and yellow pages) ended up in a mistake together.

[@seanj3667]

Why has thee never been a TopTenz list of Top Ten Beards? Also, I miss being told that Simon hopes we enjoyed the lists...

[@skyfever111]

because he has his own beard oil product line, it would be considered tasteless advertising

[@seanj3667]

@@skyfever111 he advertises his own channels in literally every other video. Also it's a joke. But I really do hate that the videos now end abruptly.

[@brianarbenz7206]

My college newspaper, covering a basketball game between the women's team and Bellarmine College, intended to headline it, "IUS women lose at Bellarmine." The sports editor accidently put an extra o in a word, telling all on campus: "IUS women loose at Bellarmine." Let's see now, who was that careless sports editor?... Oh yeah, it was _me._

[@jamesdean0885]

Is a servo on the west gate fwy (Melbourne australia) that used to be a shell and had an ongoing lease, but the guy who would pay for the renewal quit and the new guy was late in paying and another company took over the lease. Shell had to get the land next door and 5 years later are now just building a new servo.

[@cody5535]

When ordering groceries, a typo between pounds and ounces led me to the faint hope that I would actually get 14 lb of Gouda cheese for ~$7.

[@StarTrekLivz]

I wish I could find the reference, maybe your research team can find it, but there was an American/Nasa space mission to launch a probe or satellite, it may have been one of the Mars exploratory missions, and it failed, and in the forensic analysis it was discovered that the work had been divided into several competing teams, and some of the teams were using Metric while other teams were using British Imperial (still the rule in the USA), and there is a lot of difference in a descent in meters/second and feet/minute .....

[@sandybarnes887]

Mars Climate Orbiter in September 1999

[@StarTrekLivz]

@@sandybarnes887 Thanks!

[@sandybarnes887]

@@StarTrekLivz you are most welcome. I'm happy I could help.

[@TheWatz05]

The link between Megaprojects and number 10.

[@ComaDave]

"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!?!?"

[@brokens1097]

Guess it sucks to beg for a large amount of money but only get handed some.

[@Sideshownicful]

I remember a long while ago reading a blog about Verizon offering data transfer prices as 0.002 cents/kb. The customer was then billed 0.002 dollars/kb. I am not sure that is a typo though, because when the customer complained, no one seemed to understand that 0.002 cents and 0.002 dollars are different: Customer: "-Is 1 dollar the same as 1 cent?" Verizon: "-No" Customer: "-Is 1/2 a dollar the same as 1/2 a cent?" Verizon: "-No" Customer: "-Is 0.002 dollar the same as 0.002 cent?" Verizon: "-Yes"

[@frroossst4267]

Am I dumb? How is 0.002 cents == 0.002 dollars If 1 dollar = 100 cents 0.002 dollars = 0.2 cents

[@Sideshownicful]

@@frroossst4267 That is exactly what the customer was trying to explain, but Verizon was just not getting it. It is also possible they were getting it, realized they messed up, and didn't want to reimburse him.

[@twocvbloke]

Funny how No.10 links perfectly into today's Sideprojects video... :P

[@kathleenr4047]

6:14 It is NOT hurr-a-KIN, it is *hurr-a-CANE.* Like a walking stick is a CANE. You don't call a walking stick a KIN!

[@MrSniperfox29]

Colonial Marines, a game that lost millions in sales due to bad gameplay. While this can be said for many games, the reason for the bad gameplay? A single typo in the code that caused the AI to not function correctly.

[@johnclose2925]

My local shop has "Disalbed Parking"

[@brianjohnson5272]

I wonder if it was used kitty litter. That is the definition of a dirty bomb.

[@ganjii420]

Nobody else notice Simon saying 'typ-wo' at 0:09? Will read anything you put in front of him

[@PeterCombs]

PSST...Simon, NFT's are dead in the water...it's over.

[@seananonymous9289]

I see what you did there. Typoo hahahaha clever

[@FMoash]

Not sure when you filmed this, but the Peble Watch Kickstarter has since been doubled by author Brandon Sanderson.

[@corbinmcnabb]

A lady traveling in Europe wired back she saw a piece of jewelry she wanted. Husband goes to Western Union with the answer:. "No, price to high." WU sent "No price to high." Oops.

[@michaelphelan423]

Wasn't the first typo from the DPK?

[@PokeMaster22222]

4:46 One of the few times where 610,000 x 1 ≠ 1 x 610,000.

[@eopatcjo]

Hey the thumbnail has a ... oh Simon, you little devil.

[@pamelamays4186]

Number One sounds like the name of a 1960's Rock band.

[@charlesshreeve319]

Typoos about typos. Hardee Har har.....

[@CTP909]

Must've recorded this one a couple weeks ago. Before the house of cards that was nfts crashed

[@sailinbob11]

Yeah... says a lot for proofreading.

[@foxtailedcritter]

(Not in this video but) I'm still thinking about that time when someone mistyped "Thou shalt not commit adultery" to "Thou shall" in some prints of the holy bible back in the day. Also any other holy book you might accidentally mistype and print out would be costly if not to your well being then least your reputation.

[@Nerathul1]

"The NFT MArket is big these days." This clearly was written a while ago and did not age well.

[@AcornElectron]

Beautiful

[@leegoddard2618]

Taylor & Sons. Didn't get Enough. 😥🤬

[@kyleroman9307]

I've never caught a video this early.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Remember, public hair won’t hide privates. 😏

[@promiscuous5761]

Thank you.

[@christianshute1818]

I was once sent a student loan bill for my 233 quadrillion dollar monthly payment.

[@brianarbenz7206]

You must have had to take a second job just to pay that.

[@philvanderlaan5942]

Typo + technology = Auto incorrect

[@ivanrubiomorales2759]

Well well...

[@Docmain3]

9:30... 420

[@godfreypigott]

I jast fegered owt thit I cen corl Dornorld Tramp a pees ov shett und nort git blorkt iff I feel my komint weth tipoz.

[@Smashaxely]

So many tpyos lolololol

[@DolFunDolhpinVtuber]

Should have made a typo in the title for fun.

[@MacktasticSlick_]

Nice thumbnail… I see what you did there

[@19ryuusei]

I had to back and look, I completely overlooked it. Man that intro is spot on 🤣

[@Iris_and_or_George]

Hahaha missed that!

[@cassieoz1702]

Ty-poos?

[@ROUGHSEES]

Grammar “Not Zs” unite

[@Iris_and_or_George]

Haha ✊

[@brendakrieger7000]

Oops😂

[@MsEsquire83]

💜

[@jaybee9269]

“Typo” should really be “typho” for typographical error, ironically enough. It’s actually the way I learned it back in the day.

[@meggiem4685]

How is "typho" a shortened version of "typographical error" though?

[@mattyt1961]

@@meggiem4685 because then it is a typographical error that defines a typographical error about typographical errors being typographical errors... and you can see the head exploding rabbit hole here... so I am going to have a lie down :)

[@meggiem4685]

@@mattyt1961 ohh ok! Thanks!

[@BigGahmBoss]

This video is the perfect companion piece to your federal reserve video on one of your other channels, I lost track. But Simon seems to do this, release videos on different channels with parallel pieces of information on various topics. Sideprojects. I looked it up after I typed this

[@Author.Noelle.Alexandria]

#2 is far from the costliest typo. Annoying for her, yes, but $12k is small compared to countless other typos. Hell, *I* have had typos cost me more than that.

[@mrtrackharrasser]

This channel has been hacked, Please DO NOT spend any money on anything offered from this channel. This is NOT TopTenz. Cheers guys x