10 of the Biggest Mistakes in Human History

For the most part, history concerns itself with victories and good decisions; there’s a reason for the saying, “History is written by the victor.” But in many cases, the mistakes are just as crucial a part of a story as the right choices are, and sometimes the mistakes are an interesting story all on their own... →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Our other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/ Text version: https://ift.tt/3o18MO8 Coming up: 10. George Bell (CEO of Excite) rejected the offer to buy Google — twice 9. Heinrich Schliemann finds Troy, but destroys it 8. A wrong turn put Franz Ferdinand in the right place to start WWI 7. Cost-cutting, broken radar caused the Exxon Valdez oil spill 6. Constantinople fell due to one gate left open 5. The Austrian army attacked itself and killed 10,000 4. Weak weather forecasting left the Germans wide open for D-Day 3. Mao Zedong’s agricultural mistakes led to the Great Chinese Famine 2. A few pairs of binoculars might have saved the Titanic 1. A mistranslation helped to bring about the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/3rIJdU7 https://ift.tt/3rItHYk https://ift.tt/3rFPsbq https://ift.tt/38QERBI https://ift.tt/2KMUYZc https://ift.tt/3huNLJl https://ift.tt/14FR1Ld https://ift.tt/37ZzgtV https://ift.tt/3n4AJmF https://ift.tt/2W8yhAr https://ift.tt/2JuJbxY https://ift.tt/3huKfOV https://ift.tt/3pyF978 https://ift.tt/3pCeoyM https://ift.tt/3odQtWd https://ift.tt/38FDndq https://ift.tt/2L7B1Mi https://ift.tt/3aS9idp https://ift.tt/3rHmGXO https://ift.tt/2JiVoCQ https://ift.tt/3pBEXE9 https://ift.tt/2KEDLRO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7hfQ8mTVrU&ab_channel=NBCNews https://ift.tt/3o5w99e https://ift.tt/34VSUoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRdUHrUnBs&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes https://ift.tt/2JuJ9pQ https://ift.tt/2WVkSfF https://ift.tt/34Wwun9 https://ift.tt/2KNMGQL https://ift.tt/3o4ObIS https://ift.tt/2JdcZyw https://ift.tt/2J9utvN https://ift.tt/2WYJnZz https://ift.tt/3n1xTz5 https://ift.tt/37WltnH https://ift.tt/3n1xU67 https://ift.tt/2EJnF61 https://ift.tt/2JIQD4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojOmUWLDG18&ab_channel=CNAInsider https://ift.tt/37ZIeXR https://ift.tt/2MliIEc https://ift.tt/2jTYJ1r https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgp6ZH-by-E&ab_channel=TheNewYorkTimes https://ift.tt/2G3RVsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU0NlJ8Jdt8&ab_channel=BritishMovietone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl3_0D2h8BY&ab_channel=TheTelegraph