The Ridiclulous Hsitory of Typos

Ridiculous History

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History, Society & Culture

4.3 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Ah, the bane of authors, students and copywriters the world round: the infamous typo! Something as small as a single misplaced letter can call the entire credibility of a book, text, or essay into question. Usually readers can still "get the gist," but every so often an innocent typo sows chaos, hilarity, scandal and disaster. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max explore some of history's weirdest, funniest -- and most expensive -- typos.

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0:00.0	Ridiculous History is a production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show fellow ridiculous his historians.
0:30.1	Thank you as always so so much for doing this.
0:34.0	How are you doing this?
0:35.0	You're a monster.
0:36.0	We got to give a shout out to our super producer.
0:39.9	You're hurting my heart.
0:41.7	Last last one.
0:43.0	This is hurting everything.
0:44.5	I do want to point out that beforehand, I had like five mental typos before we hit
0:51.3	start here as in I even clapped.
0:53.7	I kind of threw my own head and clapped before realizing I have to count out loud for that to work.
0:58.5	Yeah, we clapped for fun.
1:00.5	It's a ritual.
1:01.3	It's technically a technical thing.
1:02.8	But it's also fun to do.
1:04.5	It just gets us on board.
1:05.9	It's a fun activity.
1:07.5	And just to confirm, so no one has to be worried, I can confirm that we are in fact actually recording this right now.
1:14.1	Tight, tight. Hey, you're Noel Brown.
1:16.6	It's me.
1:17.3	I'm Ben Bullen.
1:18.6	It's you.
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