If you have been referring to your child or sibling or even a friend as dumb and silly, then you will definitely change your mind now. Those innocent beings would not have done anything as grave or serious so as to invite doom over thousands. The internet has exposed us to many things and among those things remain the ones that look as silly as anything can possibly get.
What is about to follow is a series of events and acts that caused a massive destruction or loss. These can be termed as one of the silliest mistakes ever in the history of mankind.
The irony related to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
The construction of this wonder took 117 years and just 10 years to begin distorting. Efforts going down the drain. (Not to shy away from accepting the fact that this distortion has led to its immense popularity)
Russians sold Alaska to the USA
For just 2 cents per hectare, the USA got Alaska from Russia because the latter thought it to be a useless tundra.
Misspelling a company’s name cost the British government 9 million pounds.
The Companies House misspelled Taylor and Son as Taylor and Sons while recording its liquidation. The British government was sued for £9 million following this silly spell error.
A Tokyo-based company sold 610,000 shares for 1 yen each.
A Japanese trader cost Mizuho Securities £190 million after he sold 610,000 shares for 1 yen each instead of selling one share for 610,000 yen.
The Titanic crash and lifeboats scarcity.
The Titanic crashed because the iceberg warning was not heeded to. Moreover, it did not have enough lifeboats as the ship was designed to be unsinkable.
Decca Records turned down the Beatles.
Decca Records rejected the Beatles because as per the former’s calculations, their album would not have been commercially successful.
NASA lost a Mars orbiter.
A Mars orbiter worth $125 million was lost by NASA because of the different metric systems used by different teams of engineers working on the same project.
12 publishers turned down JK Rowling’s Harry Potter.
Bloomsbury took her finally after Alice, the 8-year-old daughter of the company’s chairman advised so. And the rest as we know is history.
Persians invited Genghis Khan’s wrath.
The Persians turned down the mutually beneficial offer of Genghis Khan and sent the ambassador back to him beheaded. It infuriated him, and he wasted no time in teaching them a lesson.
No successor announced by Alexander the Great.
His empire collapsed due to no heir to take over the reigns in his hands.
Austrian army attacking itself.
Even the dumbest of the lot will find some relief after reading about the Austrian army’s act. The army attacked itself and ended up killing around 10,000 of their own soldiers.
Nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl.
A faulty cupola construction caused the explosion of Chernobyl reactor in 1986. It was caused by human error.
Turks had an easy victory over Constantinople because of a gate left open.
A Constantinople resident accidentally left one of the gates open and allowed for easy invasion by the Turks.
Dutch finding Australia to be a useless desert.
Dutch were the first to discover Australia but ignored it finding it to be a useless desert.
NASA taping over its moon landing video.
The moon landing original recording was accidentally destroyed when NASA recorded over it. What we have now are copies of the original recording.
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese.
The Japanese attacked the Pearl Harbor when there was not even a single aircraft carrier on the port. I wonder what did they want to prove.
The French State Railway SNCF order too wide trains.
They spent $15 billion on a new fleet of trains without measuring the platforms. The trains were too wide and left them red-faced because of their silly ignorance.
