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Most Expensive Mistakes in History

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Have you ever made a mistake, maybe parked in an illegal spot and got towed, and it cost you a couple hundred bucks? well in today's video we're going to show you the most expensive mistakes in history. Mistakes that cost governments billions of dollars, and surely got some people fired. Check out the crazy most expensive mistakes in history right now, and don't feel so bad about the little mistakes!

I like how the Russian empire sold Alaska to the USA because they thought it was not profitable anymore only for Alaska to become really profitable and the government of the USA learning that Alaska was actually profitable as well as causing the American people who criticized the purchase of Alaska suddenly changing their minds on the purchase of Alaska by the government of the USA.🤣😂😅

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I just want to let you know that one of my great uncles on my mom’s side of the family had a chance to invest in shoprite but refused because he thought supermarkets would not become popular at all he most likely regretting his decision in his grave.😅

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SNCF French Railways mistake was not about the rails but about the some stations platforms. The trains wouldn't fit to the stations and stations' platforms had to be modified

@CommonSense9eleven
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Haha, almost the exact same thing happened to my best friend with his hard drive that had bitcoin on it. Although he had a lot less coins and he didn’t bother trying to dig through the landfill for it. Still, if he hadn’t lost it he could have made tens of millions.

@itwasaliens
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Bitcoins, 1,000,000 x 0 = 0, worthless even to this day, monopoly money is worth more...

@StrikerZero6
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Doyle Brunson and the donkey known as Daniel Negreanu both turned down $150-200M for their online poker rooms; They thought it was worth more. The problem was when the feds shut down online poker about a decade ago. Both ended up with nothing from their endeavors instead.

@misterx6276
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dot com bubble doesn't exi-

@Kazuma11-b4m
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Welp, at least the tracks got replaced

@silverpawsart5813
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You didn't put the launch of the zune in this video

@moldman767
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Tiger woods is now a billionaire himself !

@jjhella
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It’s not a fatal mistake unless someone dies

@seymourcox6112
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"I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed." - Paulo Coelho

@ives3572
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"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant." - Seneca

@ives3572
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"Fate - everything happens for a reason. And when fate happens, look for the good in it as it is there!" - Catherine Pulsifer

@ives3572
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For comparison 3x B-2 bombers cost as much as an Aircraft Carrier!

@blake7587
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Humans creating economic havoc...
Pandemic: "hold my beer"

@xcaliber7779
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That's NFT of course!

@faustojavierdarosa1119
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I'm sorry to be that guy, but since when does a country put a "priceless" tag on their soldiers? Especially the US

@Jijadelamadre
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Опа

@hobodarkness7696
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I remember before Bitcoin was even a thing and I was in middle school and I was joking with my brother about it, now we never could’ve or would’ve invested, but could’ve been loaded

@jakeg3126
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We have all done something with a financial blunder in our lives at least once! 😠🤬🤦‍♂️

@EAWanderer
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8:03 1.8 billion $ wasted just because people didnt care... Imagine how many poor familys you could feed for that money

@Christall5
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10:11 maybe he would have made apple fail and get himself in a big debt

@whitezombie10
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Russia didn't really make a mistake with Alaska, they knew Britain was going to invade from Canada and take it and there was no way they could stop them. So they sold it to the US, who eventually ended up paying a billion dollars in reparations to the natives.

@llynellyn
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So weres my 10,000

@farmer9990
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Umm... My most expensive mistake was, not buying a roblox face when it was 150 robux , even though I liked it I bought another one, and now it is 5000 robux

@n1thyax
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Most expensive mistake: electing Joe Biden

@Jackson-ck1ps
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As a swede we made a mistake to let Norway go and then they found oil and got to the no.7 richest country in the whole world

@MakkaPakkaaFM
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Speaking of "typos", autocorrect got me laid one time. I texted a girl saying "hey wanna hang?" Which was auto corrected to "hey wanna bang?" Needless to say she appreciated my forwardness and said she saw me as confident. When in reality I beat around the bush alot as well as hint towards things.

@nicholashampton838
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We just ignore the2 trillion lost by tge pentigon a day before 9/11?

@danpinnell7502
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Most expensive mistake in history is letting biden be president 😂

@VintasticGamingX
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at the grocery store I work at, I dropped and killed a jar of barbecue sauce. I was completely embarrassed and my manager wasn't happy with me. so this definitely made me feel a little better lol

@Silver-kw7eq
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They actually sold Alaska to the us because they didn’t want Britain to invade them through Canada.

@MonsieurMini-g4c
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Tiger one still makes no sense

@greent3580
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That was perfect he said stop laughing as I was laughing

@cooldude487
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Falcon 9 in 1998

@thedarkknight3107
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I forgot about AOL.

@Raviel891
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Biggest mistake Europe colonizing America,

@WooperChannelYT
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ah...as an asian kid, you always get red packets from relatives during new year, and they can total up to $700+, so i now have bout $10k in my bank account

@tyranoxis7386
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7:13 i never knew Alaska was once part of Russia

@cj4567_8
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This hurt to watch

@jonathanvandagriff7515
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Now imagine you are the last person in this list and watching this video to feel better, looking for people who made bigger mistake

@syonizlee496
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Atm 475M hard drive is lost.

@Jayztunning
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My only issue is some of these are missed opportunities, not expensive mistakes.

@Frawriest
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My most expensive mistake? Marriage

@beezlebub7847
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I know there are a lot of people joking on here saying that kids are an expensive mistake, but it's not true. Yes it does take money to raise kids, but guess what? It took money to raise all the people who are now adults too. If you had a kid that is a "mistake," then it's probably time for you to look in the mirror and do some self reflection. The kid is not the mistake. It's your life choices.

@rain_and_daisies