Number One: Hyphens don’t usually score high on the list of most important punctuation.

But a single dash led to absolute failure for NASA in 1962 in the case of Mariner 1,

America’s first interplanetary probe. The mission was simple: get up close and personal

with close neighbor Venus. But a single missing hyphen in the coding used to set trajectory

and speed caused the craft to explode just minutes after takeoff. 2001: A Space Odyssey

novelist Arthur C. Clarke called it “the most expensive hyphen in history.”

Number Two: A missing letter cost one sloppy eBay seller more than half-a-mill on the 150-year-old

beer he was auctioning. Few collectors knew a bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale was up

for bid, because it was listed with a single 'P' instead of two. One eagle-eyed bidder

hit a payday of Antiques Roadshow proportions when he came across the rare booze, purchased

it for $304, then immediately re-sold it for $503,300.

Number Three: Not even the heavenly father is immune to occasional inattention to detail.

In 1631, London’s Baker Book House rewrote the 10 Commandments when a missing word in

the seventh directive declared, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Parliament was not singing

hallelujah; they declared that all erroneous copies of the Good Book—which came to be

known as “The Wicked Bible”—be destroyed and fined the London publisher 3000 pounds.

Number Four:. A plate of tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto would typically only

be offensive to a vegetarian’s senses. But an unfortunate blunder in The Pasta Bible,

published by Penguin Australia in 2010, recommended seasoning the dish with “salt and freshly

ground black people.” Though no recall was made of the books already in circulation,

the printer quickly destroyed all 7000 remaining copies in its inventory.

Number Five: . Online trading was still in its relative infancy in 1994, a fact Juan

Pablo Davila will never forget. It all started when the former copper trader—who was employed

by Chile’s government-owned company Codelco—mistakenly bought stock he was trying to sell. After

realizing the error, he went on a bit of a trading rampage—buying and selling enough

stock that, by day’s end, he had cost the company/country $175 million. Davila was,

of course, fired. And Codelco ended up filing suit against Merrill Lynch, alleging that

the brokerage allowed Davila to make unauthorized trades. Merrill coughed up $25 million to

settle the dispute—but not before a new word entered the popular lexicon: davilar,

a verb used to indicate a screw-up of epic magnitude.

Number Six: In December 2005, Japan’s Mizuho Securities introduced a new member to its

portfolio of offerings, a recruitment company called J-Com Co., nicely priced at 610,000

yen per share. Less than a year later, one of the company’s traders made more than

a simple boo-boo when he sold 610,000 shares at one yen apiece. No amount of pleading to

the Tokyo Stock Exchange could reverse the error.

Number Seven: And you thought alien sightings were the only interesting thing happening

in Roswell, New Mexico! In 2007, a local car dealership came up with a brilliant plan to

stimulate sluggish sales: mail out 50,000 scratch tickets, one of which would reveal

a $1000 cash prize. But Atlanta-based Force Events Direct Marketing Company mistakenly

upped the ante when they printed said scratch tickets, making every one of them a grand-prize

winner, for a grand payout of $50 million. Unable to honor the debt, the dealership instead

offered a $5 Walmart gift certificate for every winning ticket.

Number Eight: Humans and computers don’t always play well together. In 2006, New York

City comptroller William Thompson admitted that a typo—an extra letter, to be precise—caused

its accounting software to misinterpret a document, leading the city’s Department

of Education to double its transportation spending (shelling out $2.8 million instead of $1.4 million).

Number Nine: . Not to be outdone, just last month, New York City’s Transportation Authority

had to recall 160,000 maps and posters that announced the recent hike for the minimum

amount put on pay-per-ride cards from $4.50 to $5.00. The problem? A typographical error

that listed the “new” price as $4.50. Oops! Of course, it will only take 100,000

rides on the 6 train to make up the difference. So straphangers lose (yet again).

Number Ten: Remember the Yellow Pages? Yeah, well Banner Travel Services would like to

forget them. Years ago, the now-shuttered Sonoma, California-based travel agency decided

to market its services in the phone book ... only to find that the final printing advertised

its specialization in exotic destinations as a forte in “erotic” destinations. The

typo certainly piqued the interest of some new customers, just not the kind of clientele

the company was hoping to attract. The printer offered to waive its $230 monthly listing

fee, but Banner sued for $10 million anyway.

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