Top 10 Typos That Almost Changed the World

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10. Jesus’ name misspelled, on a coin released by the Vatican.
9. Jack the Ripper’s spelling mistakes makes it easier for people to send hoax letters.
8. There’s a mistake in Newton’s Principia that went unnoticed for 3 centuries.
7. The various misprinted Bibles.
6. The Koran misprint that sparked a crisis.
5. Shakespeare couldn’t spell his own name.
4. Jane Austen couldn’t spell either.
3. Google is the result of a typo.
2. The typo that would have never been noticed if it wasn’t for the Oscars.
1. A bunch of cities in the States are misspellings of way cooler names.

Source/Further reading:

http://www.casebook.org/ripper_letters/
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/11/us/after-3-centuries-a-student-figures-that-newton-erred.html
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6ZC3AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA29&dq=thy+son+that+shall+come+forth+out+of+thy+lions&hl=en&sa=X&ei=eHBBU8HvEIja0QWikoDwBw&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#lions&f=false
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/335404.stm
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/biography/shakespearename.html
https://theweek.com/article/index/246092/11-historical-figures-who-were-really-bad-at-spelling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3006486.stm
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books-arts/new-york-times-correct-spelling-mistake-161-years-later-30062012.html
http://www.11points.com/Travel/11_Cities_Whose_Names_Are_Actually_Misspellings

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