25 Mistakes That Changed History Forever

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[@westaussie965]

220CE? 16:52 nah mate, it’s BC or AD. Always has been, always will be.

[@kirbysednek5967]

Nit-pickery, eh MATE?! 😑

[@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.

[@Roz-y2d]

Not anymore!

[@lunarskyye2680]

Even though it's been a while since, it's still so good to have this channel back! 🙂

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@Tizz-t6d]

For British read English. They still don't understand the low (sometimes more than low) level resentment the "other" races in the UK feel toward them. Like all their colonies they took everything of value and left them bereft. In fact it can be localised even further to the Home Counties, which treat the north and west in the same contemptuous way.

[@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?

[@susanlynch1966]

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

[@CancerChick0523]

Cool!

[@ulfp6109]

*Günter

[@phife1878]

"You know what would make this heat more bearable? A stolen TV!"

[@AshesAshes44]

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]

😂😂😂

[@debbieellett9093]

Perhaps the heat scrambled their already messed up brains!

[@nydiajohnson3632]

In a blackout. I would be looking for fans and air conditioners.

[@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.

[@GJL_Hill]

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

[@judithstrachan9399]

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

[@ItsJustLisa]

But had they sent rescuers right away, there would have been 20-50 survivors. The American military had been monitoring the distress calls and located the crash site right away. It was a Japanese pilot who flew to the location and announced there weren’t any survivors, so there was no point in rescue. The Americans even offered to help with the effort and the Japanese declined.

[@riinak7212]

Came here to say this. Also of note, one of the casualties was Kyũ Sakamoto, who was a Japanese pop star whose hits included "Ue No Sariko", released under the moniker "Sukiyaki" in most Western countries, in 1963.

[@LorettaBehringer]

Some mistakes can be costly, even fatal.

[@Lifeinbelize]

Great info

[@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

[@selvint9021]

Dam

[@brendawalters3728]

Made too many mistakes to list. I've never made the same mistake twice; the problem is I'm very adept at finding new ones

[@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.

[@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😵

[@j.p.6932]

4:09 What’s funny is I never knew France occupied Vietnam (they never covered that in HS history). So, I went to dinner at this upscale restaurant in my city. Since it had a French name, I just assumed it was a French restaurant. When I got there, I was surprised to find it was upscale Vietnamese. The fact it was basically called Colonial should have been a hint.

[@1194pa]

Good work❤

[@shirleyhorne1892]

Well done on Maori pronunciation

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@karld001]

If Excite would have bought Google, Google would have been like a Chicago Bears #1 draft pick, a failure in less than 2 years😢

[@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.👍😀

[@653j521]

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

[@debbieellett9093]

So don't watch. Bye bye😏

[@timcarder2170]

I am surprised that the events leading up to the Halifax Explosion wasn't included in this list.🤨

[@robertq55403]

I’m surprised Blockbuster Videos blundered of not purchasing Netflix didn’t make this list. Netflix is worth about 260 billion.

[@fightmaker619]

That made the last list they did

[@torbjorneriksson9304]

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

[@davidrobertson3930]

Good to see you're still around Mike.

[@michaellazor5667]

Many of those did not change history

[@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.

[@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

[@veronicamorgan9029]

Love your lists!

[@MartyWiggins-x2k]

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.

[@cynthiasimpson931]

There were actually survivors of Japan Airlines Flight 123. Because there was such a delay between the crash and when rescue personnel arrived at the crash site, more people who had survived had died of exposure, leaving only 4 survivors.

[@JulianneRemley-l2q]

Interesting facts

[@narrakasa81194]

My family and i were in Berlin on the 9th November 1989 and got to witness the fall of the wall.. we were there celebrating my 7th birthday. It was one hell of a birthday. My parents have chunks of the wall somewhere in the loft 😂

[@chuckwolf9869]

Was it a hyphen or a mathematical minus sign?

[@dmc009]

3:35 yeah, but if excite did buy Google, it prolly wouldn't be google, I mean, right? Like, if blockbuster bought Netflix to stomp out competition... ... I'm not saying we would still be driving to a brick and mortar to rent physical VHS tapes.. it would have only set us back a year, maybe 2, before.. .. I dunno, I just think, if excite and blockbuster were that dumb at the the time, they were just poorly run businesses and would've crapped out anyway. That being said, I do get your point, I just don't think excite not buying Google wouldve changed anything long term... ... I do hope you get to the guy who went on a 2 day holiday to come back and find penicillin.. .. ill shut up and keep watching

[@sb6678]

There was anothe4 one too called The Wicked Bible, where the passage read Sin ON more instead of Sin NO more 😂 and another one that said gird up your LIONS instead of gird up your LOINS 😂😂😂😂

[@shykitten55]

You mentioned the BA failure. But what about the recent GLOBAL failure of a lot of systems because of the Crowdstrike stuff up?

[@netgnostic1627]

In the British Airways 2017 flight cancellation, you mentioned human error as the cause of the datacenter outage. What was the human error?

[@PanAm747ClipperDefender]

sorry but i am quite an avgeek so i have to correct you, not ALL people abouard JAL 123 died, there were 524 souls onboard with 520 dead, so 4 survived

[@Tizz-t6d]

Enjoyed this one. It is believed that the Jameson Raid which started the Boer War happened because a comma was either ignored or omitted from a telegramme and a command to defend if attacked was understood to mean attack unprovoked. The use of the worg "if" together with the comma disaster showed that correct grammar is a lotmore important than many people belie e. The New Zealand thing was probably due to the English contempt for the native population and their languages. Ask many Welsh, Scots and Irish about their contentious history and the term United Kingdom begins to sound like irony.

[@Shmuel420]

This title is the very definition of clickbait. If you had called this "25 mistakes and bad decisions in History" then sure. But you didn't. Be better.

[@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

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

as a native American I can understand why the Maori don't really trust the English we were screwed by them for years and in 1830 we had a very long march to Oklahoma we didn't ask for ten years before the maroi deal and my tribe the Cherokee was definitely doing alot of crying in the 1830s..so I can understand the tears of my maori cousins

[@richewilson6394]

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

[@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

[@courteneym87]

Treaty translation issues are not mistakes when it happened to every Indigenous population colonized by Europe.

[@baliyae]

To be fair, Tsar Nicholas II was desperate to find a cure for his son’s condition and Rasputin *preyed* on that desperation. There were also rumors that Tsarina Alexandra was having an affair with Rasputin. Not sure if that was true, but she seemed to be dependent on him.

[@greene8097]

Don't forget the driver who got lost taking Archduke Franz Ferdinand to visit wounded troops in the hospital! As he backed the car up from a dead end road, he turned the car right in front of the assassin!

[@berylcrutch2730]

Got married

[@SFJ-my8vz7vx2h]

❤

[@dr6ke451]

So most of these didnt actually change history forever lmfao what a clickbait

[@jimmeade2976]

My biggest mistake: Once, while takings some voltage measurements, I inadvertently shut down the computer system that controlled a railway in a major European city during morning rush hour. All trains were stopped for about 30 minutes as I rapidly (and safely) brought the computer system back up.

[@kirbysednek5967]

WHEW...😤 Jim!! 👏👏 😅

[@brentonlively9322]

Another great video and love the shirt

[@Shirley-c6z]

My mistake was falling for an actor! He was gay and wanted everyone to think he was straight..

[@donaldgoodinson7550]

Number 5. British Airways lost pounds not dollars

[@QuaintMelissaK]

About JAL 123, there were FOUR survivors!

[@BrettTorgerson]

The plane did not obliterate once part of its tail flew off. The pilots tried desperately to make it to haneda airport before crashing into a mountain

[@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!!

[@haroldford1195]

Had chance to buy 10 k Google stock for 5 k In 1991 and didn't do it

[@SuperZippyzippy]

Badass shirt

[@jacobyorton]

3:10 What does that kind of regret feel like? Look at it the other way. What if Excite's acquisition of Google would've tanked Google for the same reasons Excite tanked? Google wouldn't exist as it does today. What would that world look like?

[@freddyjefferson5164]

Biggest mistake I ever made was watching this video😅

[@kim-nabi-the-butterfly]

11:04 - There were actually 4 survivors. An off duty flight attendant, 2 children and an adult woman (mother of one of the surviving girls).

[@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.

[@jenelleprins5306]

It wasn’t the tsar that really trusted Rasputin. It was his wife.

[@carenlettofsky3045]

Let's hope that Biden stepping back is not #26.

[@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)!

[@philiprice7875]

this is a urban legend the story that hitler was in Liverpool has zero basis but it comes up once in a while. BUT what is true is the the 2 major Blitzs on Liverpool the last one was just before the germans redeployed to the East the last bomb landed on a house in Stanhope Street L8 and destroyed the house of Hitlers Nephew

[@sunnyscott4876]

I changed my major in college. 🤷‍♀️

[@florian-cristianrebegel4001]

My biggest mistake was watching this video

[@michaelfarrell5101]

what is the difference between ny in 1977 and today ?

[@GaryAa56]

The dig @ Boeing was well deserved. But

[@Going_Bananas]

I zigged when I should have zagged.

[@samueleburgess9405]

My biggest mistake; married her

[@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.'

[@mrnoreply2]

This could had been done better

[@AshleyMartin-f3x]

Ron Wyatt found the Ark Of The Covenant 1985, also Mount Sinai, Red Sea Crossing, Noah's Ark, and Soddom and Gorrmora

[@JIm-w1b]

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?

[@MrTwotimess]

Modern day Boeing scares me.

[@lynnefromthelake]

The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry

[@patticampana9458]

Another good one 👍

[@ankhpom9296]

It does not take much to start a war.

[@ericsaunders2485]

Too many kids….😅

[@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?

[@robbiegreve652]

Christopher Colombus called Native Americans the Indians because he stranded on the wrong continent. But once people back then figured out this was a mistake, they kept using the word anyway. Oops!

[@Itsuki-m5w]

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.

[@awaitingvalhalla4223]

HA! I had an excite email

[@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.

[@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.

[@wesgraham9588]

👍

[@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.

[@albtckl]

Actually, there was a lone survivor of the JAL crash. Four survived the impact but three of those people later died from their injuries.

[@j.p.6932]

13:58 Why didn’t they just break the door open and get the binoculars? They probably didn’t think they needed them, considering the other warnings they ignored.