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The original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing were erased and re-used by mistake.

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The World’s oldest known creature, a mollusc, was 507 years old until scientists killed it by mistake.

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Rio de Janeiro means “January River” and it was called that by mistake. A Portuguese explorer thought the bay was the mouth of a river.

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In 2010, Nicaragua accidentally invaded Costa Rica because of a mistake in Google Maps.

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David Bowie declared himself gay in 1972 then bisexual in 1976, but ultimately admitted that those declarations were a mistake.

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In 2013, Bill Gates admitted that the Ctrl+Alt+Delete command was a mistake, and should have been a single button.

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