25 Mistakes That Changed History Forever

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Hey there, nerds! Ever wonder how small mistakes can alter the course of history? In this video, we explore 25 human blunders that had massive consequences, from typos in important documents to missed opportunities and catastrophic errors. Join us as we delve into these fascinating stories and uncover the surprising ways in which human mistakes changed the world forever. From accidental wars to overlooked scientific discoveries, you won't believe how much impact a simple slip-up can have!
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Music: Commander Impulse - DivKid
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - The Adulterers’ Bible
1:04 - The Chilean Mint
1:41 - The NASA Hyphen Mishap
2:19 - The D-Day Birthday
2:55 - Excite and Google
3:41 - The French Military’s Blunders in Vietnam
4:26 - The Fall of the Berlin Wall
5:05 - Treaty of Waitangi (1840)
5:50 - Hitler’s “Wonder Weapons”
6:22 - The Misplaced Decimal Point That Made Spinach a Superfood
7:09 - The Windows on Passenger Airplanes
8:00 - The Missed Switch
8:38 - The Costly Game
9:19 - The Civil War Rifles
9:59 - The Spy Who Slept and Lost His Papers
10:37 - A Faulty Repair on a Boeing 747
11:27 - Henry Tandey’s Decision
11:58 - George Washington’s French Blunder
12:36 - The 2017 British Airways Delays
13:26 - The Missing Key
14:02 - The Spice Wars
14:37 - Hannibal’s Snow Drift
15:14 - The Russian Royals and Rasputin
16:00 - A Study Turned Ivy League Scandal
16:43 - China’s Warlords
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Hee! Then, watch a naughty movie (somehow) with your sweetheart and contribute to the baby boom that happened 9 months later!

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I don’t get why the minute something goes wrong our stores suffer for it. Broken windows, looting, murders…it’s insane!

[@FeelinKnitty]

😂😂😂

[@matthewcooper3218]

After crossing the Alps Hannibal Barca and his army would go on one of the most successful military campaigns in history changing the art of warfare forever.

[@susanlynch1966]

When Gunter Schabowski died in 2015 they used a slab of concrete from the Berlin Wall as his gravestone.

[@backNblack0523]

Cool!

[@lesnyk255]

The Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because the engineers had forgotten to convert from English to metric units. The Apollo 13 explosion was caused by a thermostat rated for only 28v, not 65 as specified. And when I was a programmer for in insurance company, I inadvertently left a period (.) off the end of a line of code, which resulted in issuing double payments to all of our agents the next time the program ran. It wouldn't be the last time I was called onto the carpet.

[@martinrovus9486]

Do you mean imperial to metric? In england (english), we use the metric system

[@lesnyk255]

@@martinrovus9486 Yep, non-metric to metric: ft to m, lb to N. My mistake, thanks for catching it. I can add it to my long list of missteps!

[@judithstrachan9399]

Ouch & double ouch?

[@wildshadowstar]

You included Excite not buying Google but left out Blockbuster not buying Netflix. I’d almost say the Netflix buy is almost a bigger deal.

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

In both cases it is as likely, if not more so, that they would not have built those companies into what they are now.

[@jaybee5315]

Tou can make a whole List 25 of something like that, Yahoo-Google, Blockbuster-Netflix, Yahoo-Facebook etc. Not everything has to be on this list.

[@SydneyB]

Hey! I lived through the 1977 blackout in NYC! I remember it! I never knew that it was due to an error on Con Ed's part!

[@GJL_Hill]

JAL123 had 4 survivors. 520 died. Love your videos 😊

[@judithstrachan9399]

I thought there were a few survivors. Was it made a film?

[@vixis]

The Treaty of Waitangi is problematic due to the maori language not having phrases (and concepts) that could be easily understood from English. But yea, I don't think the British govt of the day cared what the native language version said as they were going to ignore it anyway.

[@veronicamorgan9029]

Love your lists!

[@patticampana9458]

Another good one 👍

[@richewilson6394]

Sears could have been just as great as any of the department stores online if they had just decided to upgrade and go online stores. Instead they neglected and by the time they realized it was too late.

[@ljohnson820]

Sears was founded as a catalog company. There was hundreds of small catalog stores. It would have been so easy to move to a online version of their famous mail order. Several other companies also, JC Whitney, JC Penney, Montgomery Wards. Etc.

[@guidorotunda1321]

The one I would love to see on there is angering Genghis Khan & what the did to the Khwarazmian Empire

[@martingriff101]

Never heard of the 😃

[@denniscain7218]

There 's a reason for that😵

[@brentonlively9322]

Another great video and love the shirt

[@shirleyhorne1892]

Well done on Maori pronunciation

[@1194pa]

Good work❤

[@matthewdresslaer]

Hannibal crossing the Alps was one of the most amazing things that happened in ancient warfare. The simple fact that he made it across the Alps at the beginning of winter was a phenomenal feat. Yes he lost 30 to 40% of his army but he still made it across with a large enough army to convince the gulls that were in Northern Italy to join his team further strengthening his army. When he went to go fight Scipio the first at the Battle of tancino he totally kicked their ass and then he kicked their ass again at the Battle of tetsano lake and then he kicked their ass completely almost wiping out the entire Roman army at the Battle of canae. I do believe that you need to get your history a little bit better than from somebody who's just trying to make a short video. The only reason why Hannibal ended up losing the war was because Scipio the first son skipio the second attacked Carthage itself and he had to retreat home

[@AmericanActionReport]

I can add something to #13. The note handed to Hessian Colonel Johann Rall was written in English. Rall either didn't speak English, or didn't speak it well enough to understand the note, and he was too proud to admit it. That's why he laid the note aside. He had a chance to effectively end the American Revolution before the end of 1776, and he blew it.

[@theintdesigner]

A really great list! I only have one comment: at 9:19, you start the section about breechloaders during the civil war. You speak as though the Southerners had breechloaders while the Northerners did not. This is not the case. Most Southern forces had muskets, often handed down for generations. The South did not have the industry to create large-scale production numbers of such revolutionary technology, though they were the first to pioneer certain weapons (ironclads and submarines). The higher kill ratio in the beginning was because many Southern soldiers were familiar with their weapons and were good shots (that comes when you have to hunt for your food with the weapon you have), whereas the Northern forces were often draftees who were unfamiliar with their weapons. Usually outnumbered, outsupplied, but well-led, Southern forces were still able to push to within about 6 miles of Washington D.C. Fortunately, that's the closest they were able to get.

[@mham1330]

I heard that during the Vietnam War. The M-16s (Soldier's main weapon) were shipped over to the troops WITHOUT the FIRING PINs, Bullets. They were shipped separately. Rendering the weapon useless and many men dying because the Veit Cong caught the U.S. Soldiers unprepared and unarmed.

[@wavebye1]

If remember correctly, it was actually due to a design flaw with the M-16's which caused the weapon to constantly jam in the middle of firefights where the enemy was only about 10-15ft away, so if your gun jammed during heavy contact, you were pretty much done. They (US military) eventually got it fixed, but not before a lot of soldiers and marines were killed because of it.

[@mham1330]

​@@wavebye1Its sounds like to me that you have brought up another issue that the soldiers had to deal with in the battle theater upon all of the other issues that were going on that time. To much Government involvement, unpopular war from the populas. Quite a few items that never got taught to us kids in school. Thank you for your insight.👍😀

[@frankphillips7436]

Whoa whoa!! I was told quite emphatically that David Hasselhoff brought down the Berlin Wall! Hahaha!

[@julianaylor4351]

The real failure of the V2 rocket, was not only was the weapon late to the war, but that it was built by slave labour, who often sabotaged the rockets, when they could. So the first barrage of V2s on London, missed what they were aimed at, that is Central London and the Port of London, and hit the East London instead, because the guidance of the rockets was sabotaged. So building them using forced prisoner labour, was asking for failure.

[@jackgibsxxx0750]

And as I understand it they were always having a fuel shortage because they were using alcohol as a propellent and the Russian slave labor was drinking it.😂😂😂😂

[@timothyfalkowski6007]

also, london leaked the wrong areas hit by v-bombs to the germans. tricking the germans to change guidence on future attacks.

[@JoshSizemore-tr4ip]

And all this time I thought David hasselhoff what's the one that brought down the Berlin Wall

[@noahnorman6877]

Not everyone onboard Japan Airlines Flight 123 died, dozens of passengers initially survived the accident but died from their injuries in the hours while they were waiting for rescue. In the end, only 4 people survived.

[@Ensensu2]

If the titanic taught us one lesson, it's that you can forget your keys if you remember your lockpicks.

[@653j521]

Why would anyone only have one set of binoculars and that was locked in a cabinet with only one set of keys? Is this a myth based on Pearl Harbor with the munitions on land locked away and the door had to be broken down to get in?

[@andeeharry]

13:12 Yeah, I remember that one, for some reason the airport decided to randomly upgrade thier computer systems and all thier data disappeared to a very bad IT glitch. Some people was fired straight away

[@simonrancourt7834]

10:37 A similar incident almost occurred un August 2001. An engine was replaced on an Airbus A330 but a missing hydrolic hose bracket causes the hose to touch a fuel line. The friction eventualy lead to a fuel leak. Look up Air Transat 236.

[@lynnefromthelake]

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

[@georgenoel3847]

I hate it when people bring up Henry Tandey for sparing Hitler like it's his fault but people seem to forget that they also contributed to Hitler's rise to power and they want to play innocent here,it's pathetic

[@glacierwolf2155]

People tend to forget that Germany at that time viewed the consequences of World War I as deeply unfair and viewed Weimar as an illegitimate government. They also forget that Europe was extremely antisemitic at that time. If Adolf Hitler wasn't the one to install Nazi Germany, someone else would have because the systems in place have geared their society towards authoritarianism.

[@Doodskreet]

If not for H, another would rise. Probably doing a better job, since H was just a tweaking addict

[@sargunkaur4606]

Cool.

[@georgenoel3847]

@@sargunkaur4606 I'm just saying the people who are woke as fuck are the same ones that will give Hitler power if he was reincarnated they will still give him power

[@user-pk3px8gs8z]

Who? The people at The Lost 25? I seriously doubt it. Most of the people who helped Hitler rise to power are dead. Most of them died in the 1940s though certainly not all. Henry Tandy still let an enemy soldier live and that enemy soldier still went on to be responsible for millions of dead people. Is it his fault? Well it's easy to see how people could think so. Personally I can't get behind that. There was no way to know and besides I don't like the idea of condemning mercy.

[@trevortibbits859]

I’m surprised that the KLM/PAN AM crash on Tenerife wasn’t on the list. The simple misunderstanding of the take off command lead to the deaths of most of the passengers and crew of the 2 aircraft involved.

[@JedTaub]

Misplaced decimal point also caused Hitler's government to expensively research mining gold from seawater; the decimal error changed "profitable" to "unprofitable". In the picture of George Washington, did you notice the white horse kicking a soldier in the nuts?

[@CircleVGamer]

They lost sight of that one am I right? OK I’ll see myself out.

[@randalmayeux8880]

Hi Mike! I recall an incident with the US space program, it might have been one of the Mars missions, but I'm fuzzy on the details. Anyway, there was a mix-up among the scientists, some were using the Imperial system while others were using Metric system. If anyone knows something about it, I'd like to hear from them.

[@KnightRanger38]

Mars Climate Orbiter - launched 11 December 1998.

[@user-of5lw4oy3c]

4 people survived the JAL 747 crash.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

I use nutmeg in my French Toast rather than cinnamon. People put cinnamon in so many things I’m kinda sick!

[@SuperZippyzippy]

Badass shirt

[@torbjorneriksson9304]

Love your humor and, not least, your short outros. 👍

[@deloresmull]

This may sound trite, but, I should have divorced my now ex husband eight years before I did.

[@653j521]

Why not say you should have married someone else, or no one?

[@chuckwolf9869]

Was it a hyphen or a mathematical minus sign?

[@rhondaflesher8313]

I'm surprised that the mistake made by the driver of archduke Franz Ferdinand wasn't on the list. That one wrong turn is said to be the starting of WW1.

[@list25]

You should check out our video about how WW1 started

[@anthonykoeslag]

14:03 - there is a riveting book on the spice race. And yeah, everyone behaved badly but the Dutch really distinguished them selves during this time

[@user-bu5ye3mr5w]

Show business is full of enormous mistakes. One of the biggest ones, was when the Beach Boys started their own record company, they had the chance to sign the then-unknown Three Dog Night and turned them down. Another was when the famous song Sugar Sugar was supposed to be for the Monkees who didn't want it. Almost all of the TV networks turned down the Flintstones and the one that bought it, almost didn't want it, either. Everybody knows how Decca records turned down the Beatles. Oh yeah and when the Wright brothers tried to sell the airplane to the army, the army didn't want it.

[@653j521]

How about all the money spent on giving a massive failure a big break, like the plane The Spruce Goose?

[@TheShayde2000]

I just watched "25 Marvelous facts about Mike to get to know him better" On Okay Thank You. You should do 25 more facts!!

[@user-jg6pi2si8v]

Here is a fact The person who could of stopped the war from even happening is a priest who was walking past a river and witnessed a 4 year old boy struggling in the river jumping in and saving the boy from drowning Who was the boy Adolph Hitler

[@653j521]

Fact? More fiction.

[@timothysteiner8330]

15:00 Hannibal was in Italy for 14+ years! Yes, a set back in the Alps but still...14+ years of war!??

[@denniscain7218]

Hannibal was good at pillage but had no idea how to do a siege,so Rome basically waited him out.

[@matthewcooper3218]

Hannibal knew how to siege he didn't siege rome for reasons

[@Moonsfire62]

🎵🎶 Where were you when the lights went out, in New York city....

[@andeeharry]

13:55 Titanic. I always thought the were people on lookout but failed to see anything because they were drunk. Now, this changes nothing, because it was dark, cold, cloudy, icy and the weather was playing havoc with people's minds. The sea was just a mass black of nothing, there was nothing for them to see.. You know, it is like walking around a totally blackout room with no light, you just keep going until you hit something.'

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

And the man who Everyone thought was celebrating in the hose water atop the wall, actually would come back later and say he was getting a shower to wash himself off.

[@jesselepe63]

Hitler didn't have element 115 to create the dg3

[@wesgraham9588]

👍

[@marypalmer1027]

As a comparison, take a look at Rasputin and Charles Manson side by side. Same creepy blank stare eyes.

[@653j521]

They were both considered to have a hypnotic gaze.

[@marius35925]

I don't think I've ever made a mistake.

[@judithstrachan9399]

You thought you did once, but you were wrong?

[@robertwilloughby8050]

Yet another (possible) Hitler story. In 1912 a Sunday painter from Manchester (lets call him Stephen) noticed another painter. He wandered over to chat, and realised that the other guy was foreign. Even so, Stephen managed to chat with him, and found out that he was visiting his brother and his wife in Liverpool. They got on, and Stephen noticed that the other painter was quite skilled, but a bit "woolly". Even so, Stephen thought the guy had a good chance of selling his paintings in England. He swapped addresses with the guy and offered to be his agent. Unfortunately, Stephen lost Adolf's (for it was he) address in Liverpool, and forgot all about it.... until Hitler started his rise to power Yes, Hitler could have been L.S. Lowry's painting partner and client. Now, you can take this with as big a pinch of salt as you like, but Stephen was almost certain that the painter he bumped into was Hitler. If things had been different, instead of Adolf Hitler, genocidal maniac, we could have had Adolf Hitler RA, KBE (honorary)!

[@user-pi5fe9lx5u]

My biggest mistake in life was choosing to go on a date with a Korean woman I met at a local coffee shop near Az State Uni. and not a Black woman a friend was trying to hook me up with. The Black woman went on to finish Medical School and runs a Medical company in AZ so I have been told. Korean girl dated for almost 2 yrs and for a year of that was costing me a lot of money (School, car payments, Rent etc...) while cheating on me with at least 2 guys from my hotel job.

[@michaelfarrell5101]

what is the difference between ny in 1977 and today ?

[@berylcrutch2730]

Got married

[@awaitingvalhalla4223]

HA! I had an excite email

[@donnagriffiths8792]

why does Indiana Jones have a mustache??? 🤔🤔🤔

[@user-ci2sh2ym5i]

I was young living in NYC for four months. One day my (adopted) father sent me a plane ticket to fly back to San Francisco. I accepted. This despite my friend to whom I was living with at the time was helping me to obtain relief (welfare) in Brooklyn/ The course of my life ever since has turned into a HUGE nightmare! I should have torn up that ticket (if non-refundable) or tried to cash it in at JFK. My life just might have had a better course to follow!

[@McCoy62]

I must have missed something. What happened?? I really want to know!

[@judithstrachan9399]

I think user said as much as they wanted to. Don’t pry.

[@Going_Bananas]

I zigged when I should have zagged.

[@kathyjaneburke2798]

❤

[@michaellazor5667]

Many of those did not change history

[@dannylayman6329]

What about during the American revolution where the British could of killed Washington

[@653j521]

Obviously they weren't able to, and it is could have not of.

[@richewilson6394]

I'm not complaining about this mistakes Hitler made lol.

[@monicarayel5120]

oops

[@ericsaunders2485]

Too many kids….😅

[@TekkLuthor]

The biggest mistake is being born.

[@JoshSizemore-tr4ip]

Could you imagine the then owner of excite telling ppl today "yup I could have owned part of a trillion dollar company if not for...." Lol probably some homeless/nut story lol

[@mrnoreply2]

This could had been done better

[@SuperGravey]

Imagine the people who wrote the Bible. 33k mistakes picked up by priests when translating the Bible the nonsense. 😂

[@judithstrachan9399]

I don’t think so. Someone has lied to you.

[@SuperGravey]

@@judithstrachan9399 not at all. It was discovered in the 1500s and nothing at all, was making sense to the scholars. They were the ones who made the find. It's a made up religion to suit the people over time. Look at the huge amount of contradictions, false time lines etc. You can go and look into it yourself.

[@653j521]

Too much of this is based on legend, conjecture, exaggeration, a lack of facts, and little context. Disappointing.

[@stischer47]

Unfortunately Boeing seems to have forgotten all the problems with their planes.

[@Dragnmastralex]

actually it never stopped. they have been doing it since their start. parts fail so often that the real numbers would make someone never fly again. it's not until it causes a crash or what fails is witnessed by the passengers that people are aware. whistle blowers that try and shed light on the real practice are silenced by hit men. many of our disasters in space travel and failures in war because of vehicles malfunctioning is due to Boeing who has been responsible for making our vehicles and parts for them for a very very long time.

[@wnbrknisezlyfxd2951]

The soviets won ww2 though... so d day really did nothing...

[@dforderer]

Love your videos. You will have to do a 25 list of Biden blunders/fk ups. Darrin, North Dakota former MARINE.

[@brentonlively9322]

Another great video and love the shirt