Most Expensive Mistakes in History

Most Expensive Mistakes

Unknowingly, mistakes are made by humans, but if there were a few mistakes, it is very small, but their damage is very high. Today you will know the mistakes of history due to which billions of rupees were lost, so let's start.

Number # 6: BLOCKBUSTER LOST OPPORTUNITY

Blockbuster

In 2009, when people did not trust Bitcoin, James Howells, an IT worker from the UK, mined 7500 Bitcoins and kept them in his laptop, because at that time the value of these Bitcoins was not even one cent. He kept those bitcoins stored in his laptop. When he started selling his laptop, he took out the hard drive from the laptop and kept it so that he might read it to sell his Bitcoins. Three years later, while cleaning his house, he accidentally threw that hard drive into the trash. James realized this when the price of one Bitcoin became $17,000 in 2017, that is, if James had not made that mistake, today he would have owned $202 Million.

Number # 5: LOST BITCOINS

Bitcoin

In 2009, when people did not trust Bitcoin, James Howells, an IT worker from the UK, mined 7500 Bitcoins and kept them in his laptop, because at that time the value of these Bitcoins was not even one cent. He kept those bitcoins stored in his laptop. When he started selling his laptop, he took out the hard drive from the laptop and kept it so that he might read it to sell his Bitcoins. Three years later, while cleaning his house, he accidentally threw that hard drive into the trash. James realized this when the price of one Bitcoin became $17,000 in 2017, that is, if James had not made that mistake, today he would have owned $202 Million.

Number # 4: ONE OF A KIND GUITAR DESTROYED

Martin Guitar

The Hollywood movie Hateful Eight had many scenes that looked real and they were real. All the things that were going to be damaged during the shooting were pre-made to minimize the damage and the scenes also look real. But in one scene of the movie, Kurt Russell had to pick up a guitar and smash it against a pillar. He did what he was supposed to do. But he didn't know that the guitar was 145 years old, which was a Martin guitar. It was rented from the museum just for the shoot. Price-wise, this guitar was priceless. The film director forgot to tell Kurt Russell that the guitar is not a fake.

Number # 3: STOCKBROKER TYPO-MISTAKE

Tokyo Stock Exchange

While typing on the keyboard, we all make mistakes, but we can correct our mistakes by just pressing a backspace. One such typo-mistake occurred in 2005 with a broker at the Tokyo Exchange Company. This company is Japan's largest stock brokers forum. This broker sold his client's 610,000 shares at one Yen and unfortunately the stock company accepted his order. Two seconds later, he sat down holding his head because he had to sell not 610,000 shares at one yen, but one share at 610,000 Yen. Just because of a small mistake, this company lost two hundred and fifty million dollars.

Number # 2: CAR MELTING WALKIE TALKIE BUILDING

Walkie Talkie Building

In 2013, a building was built in London, which became famous as the Walkie-Talkie Building because its shape resembled a walkie-talkie. It cost $270 Million to build this building, but the design of the building was such that it was a mistake, which the architects realized after the building was ready, when a strange commotion started happening among the people of the area. The plastic of the cars parked near this building used to decompose. The floor mats of the nearby shops were burnt and people could not see the building during the day because of the curved shape of the building and the glass on it started to reflect the sunlight three times. The light was so hot that it could fry even an egg. Finally, the owners of the building had to give compensation for the loss of people and also had to install a sunshade on one side of the building.

Number # 1: FRANCE’S FLAT TRAINS

SNCF Company's Train

The French railway company SNCF placed an order to build a high-speed train in 2014, for which they spent 15 billion dollars but while ordering, they made a small mistake that no employee of the French Railway Company could guess. They realized this mistake when the first train arrived at the platform ready but it was not fitting on the platform. At first, the staff thought that the platform might be small but later realized that the size of the train was big. But it was too late because all the trains produced were sized to fit on France's total of 1300 railway platforms. An investigation revealed that a small error in sizing had led the French railway company to such great trouble. Eventually, all 1300 railway station platforms were forced to be shortened, costing an additional $40 Million.