19 Of The Greatest 'Butterfly Effect' Moments In History

A woodshed burns down and then Legos happen.
19 Of The Greatest 'Butterfly Effect' Moments In History

It turns out the butterfly effect is a thing, and not just a super bizarre movie starring Ashton Kutcher and that big dude from Boy Meets World. It's true, we looked it up!

And it's way more than a metaphor about insects and bad weather. No, it turns out the butterfly effect is a very real and slightly freaky thing. Don't believe us? Well, then how do you explain ...

Aug. 9, 1945, was a cloudy day in Kokura, Japan. ESBKS, LAKE And that's why the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Kokura was the site of a larg
In 1924, Ole Kirk Christiansen's carpentry workshop burned down. 0937) 0537 Ole Kirk Christiansenr 0831 And that's why we have Lego. When Christiansen
In 1977, lightning struck an electricity transmission line in New York City. And hip-hop music was born. A second lightning strike triggered a chain r
After 3 months at sea, the Mayflower ran out of beer. So the Pilgrims went ashore at Plymouth Rock. We could not now take time for further search or

Buffalo Bill

In 1869, Ned Buntline wrote a dime novel about Buffalo Bill. BUFFALO TLAL The King cf Border Men. NLD And the legend of the American Wild West was bor
In 1905, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna rejected an application. Twice. That rejection gave us the Third Reich. That aspiring art student was Adol
In many Asian languages, the number four sounds like the word for death. 4 And that scares some people to death. Because of the homophonic similarity,
19 Of The Greatest 'Butterfly Effect' Moments In History

Ogedei Khan

In 1241, Ogedei Khan died. Kyrgyz Delun Merkits Boldog Tatars Dy 121 Naimans Kaakorum Keraits 11225 Western. Khitan Ningcia ODunhuang Xia Khanate Tibe
Gavrilo Princip stopped for a sandwich. Archdukc Franz Ferdinand Gavrilo Princip And triggered the events leading to two world wars. Princip was part

Robert Fromme

In 1995, Robert Fromme got a second job as a security guard. SECURITY And took down a terrorist fundraising syndicate. Fromme was a police detective w
During the construction of the Hubble telescope, a chip of paint flecked off. 'aku Xe Seom That fleck rendered the Hubble unable to take clear photos.
In the '8Os, a contract worker laid water pipes in Guadalajara, Mexico. The way he placed them flattened Guadalajara in 1992. The worker had laid the

Friday the 13th

In 1907, a stockbroker wrote a novel called Friday the Thirteenth. Friday 6 13 Frida, omae the Witlam thirteenth Lawton And now the U.S. economy loses
In 2009, one of Google's programmers made a typo. http://v DANGER 10110101 And flagged every site on the Internet as harmful. The programmer was addin

Three Mile Island

One light on a control panel was badly designed. Which caused the meltdown at Three Mile Island. The signal light was programmed to indicate that the

Communist Spy Ring

Cliff Stoll spotted a 75$ discrepancy in the books at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. Markus Hess Cliff Stoll OWCE R TT O a I Q a When he found it, he uncover

The Civil War

In 1862, a Union scout found a box of cigars at an abandoned campsite. Daniel Harvey Hill Robert E. Lec Because of that find, the South lost the Civil
The Airbus A320 only shows two digits on its descent rate readout. o45 02700 M AMRINTER L6c PEl D LAY A320 As a result, 87 people died when their plan
In the 4th century, a meteor streaked across the sky. It made Christianity the widespread religion it is today. In A.D., o-yet-emperor-Constantine w w

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