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James Burtoft assembled The 5 Most Disastrous Typos in Human History for Cracked.
Everything from a comma instead of a hyphen costing the American government the modern equivalent of $40 million dollars during the Civil War to changing a medical term from Patient O (as in Oh, for Outside the area being examined) to Patient Zero.
And that list doesn’t event include “A court’s decision in a Maine labor dispute hinged on the absence of an Oxford comma“ I previously mentioned in my April 11, 2017 Editing Rant.
You can see the whole article here: http://www.cracked.com/article_24628_the-5-most-disastrous-typos-in-human-history.html
Just so you know, good editing saves civilization.