History has a way of feeling fateful – epic stories with a grand sweep that feel like they only could've gone one way. More often than you know, it's actually just stupid people making terrible decisions.
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The slapdashery of Chernobyl | 0:00
Franz Ferdinand's fatal wrong turn | 1:36
Edward IV married for love | 2:50
Bad translation in New Zealand | 4:44
Louis VII annoyed his wife | 5:39
MacArthur, China, and the Korean War | 7:21
The Habsburg marriage blunders | 8:27
Free toys | 9:53
A lucky typo in Kuwait | 10:38
Margaret of Austria wore the wrong shoes | 11:35
Bolivia lost its coastline | 12:49
Deadly procrastination | 14:06
A 12th century party boat crash | 15:13
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | 16:25
Erwin Rommel's ill-timed trip home | 17:53
Oopsies bring down the Wall | 18:49
New York City's 1977 blackout | 19:55
They tried to stop the Challenger | 21:10
Drunk captain causes oil spill | 22:30
Dutch traders aren't impressed | 23:45
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