The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time

1. In the 20th century, the famous television show Popeye encouraged its audience to eat spinach. The producers of the show said spinach had as much iron as red meat. Lo and behold, the producers got these results from an 1870 German report that had misplaced its decimal point. Meaning spinach actually has 10 times less iron than red meat . Spinach ain’t all that good for you!

2. In 1962, NASA launched the probe named Mariner 1. However, it had a system failure and crashed due to one little typo. Some jackass forgot to put the overbar over the letter “R.” Yep, seems like little typos like these are such a big freaking deal due to rocket science being a harsh mistress.

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3. In 2005, Mizuho Securities had its grand launch and was supposed to offer 600,000 yen per share. However, one little typo and they accidentally offered 1 yen per share. Overnight in the 24-hour period, the company lost $225,000,000 USD. All because the Tokyo Stock Exchange doesn’t allow do-overs…

4. In 1996, a CEO of a fairly new company was sending pictures of himself naked through the mail to his far-away lover. Apparently, the post office man read the “5″ as a “6″ because the idiot probably closed the loop. Okay, so the letters were sent to the wrong address, but it gets worse. The CEO sends the pictures to his main competitor, and pictures were streaming all over the damn place.

5. Webster’s Dictionary submitted the word “dord” by accident. Grammar police finally did the investigation and the company was sued because the word “dord” had been submitted in a chemistry publication 10 years earlier.

6. Chile. They misspelled their money in 2008. The money mint really fucked up and spelled Chile as “Chiie”

7. The BIBLE! In 1631, a reprint of the King James bible was constructed. And yep, one typo was about adultery. They typed it out as “Thou shalt commit adultery” Oh man…

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