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History likes to pretend it's made of strategy, genius, and destiny - but most of it is chaos, bad judgment, and somebody having a very, very bad day. This book is a tour through the funniest, strangest, and most painfully ironic real events in history that started as pure mistakes and spiralled into world-shaping consequences. From a royal assassination that only happened because the killer stopped for a sandwich, to a painter's typo that unleashed centuries of witch hunts, to a drunk navigator who ""discovered"" the wrong continent and called it India, this is the side of history they didn't teach you in school. Each chapter drops you directly into the moment: the confusion, the ego, the panic, the ""oh no."" You'll meet emperors, soldiers, priests, drunks, spies, scientists, and accountants - all of them real, all of them sure they knew what they were doing, and all of them setting off chain reactions no one saw coming. It's smart, fast, and darkly funny. Because yes, it's all true. And no, they absolutely did not mean for any of this to happen.

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