36 All-Time Failures That Should Make You Feel Better About Yourself
I’m sure they’ll get over it, but Amazon messed up BIG time
You can give it your best shot, you can throw millions of dollars at a problem, you can lie until your tongue falls out. Sometimes the best ideas and the worst intentions are just bound to end in disaster.
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Big Mistakes
The Titanic
D-Day
![A single word may have prompted Harry Truman to bomb Japan. In 1945, the Allies drafted the Potsdam Declaration, demanding Japan's mokusatsu -suru, v. ta unconditional surrender. (anything) with silent contemp silence]: remain in a wise and ma When Japanese Premier -Kenkyusha's New Japanese Kantaro Suzuki responded, р. 1129. he used the word mokusatsu to mean he'd taken note of the message and was thinking about it. Unfortunately, mokusatsu can also mean to contemptfully ignore, and it was this translation that was provided to President Truman. 10 days later, the U.S. dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima. CRACKED.COM https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/tech_journals/mokusatsu.pdf](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/4/1037664.jpg)
The Bay of Pigs
Segways
Quibi
iPhones
TayTweets
