The 25 Worst Mistakes In History

We tracked down the inflation-adjusted damages of some of the worst mistakes ever, including terrible mergers, oil spills and illicit sexual affairs.

Tiger Woods sleeps with multiple women who aren't Elin Nordegren

Divorce settlement in 2010: $110 million

At the end of in 2009, America was shook by reports that Tiger Woods had engaged in multiple illicit sexual affairs. Within a year, Tiger agreed to a $750 million divorce settlement with Elin Nordegren.

Total cost of this mistake was even higher if you include stock loss for Nike, Gatorade and other sponsors. One professor put the cost as high as $12 billion.

Captain Edward Smith crashes the Titanic into an iceberg

Money lost in 1909: $7.5 million in shipbuilding costs

Inflation-adjusted: $168 million

The passenger liner, The Titanic, sunk on its maiden voyage from England to the United States in 1912. The Titanic was known as the unsinkable ship, specifically designed to make the long journey to America with no possible chance of sinking.

But one night, the ship crew ignored warnings of icebergs in their path and went onward. The ship hit an iceberg and scraped the entire right side, causing the boat to sink and killed 1,517 people.

An elderly man throws away a Euromillions lottery ticket

Loss in 2010: $181 million

A woman in England who played the lottery every week picked the correct numbers to win the Euromillions, but her husband threw the ticket away. The elderly woman knows she picked the winning numbers because she writes them down on a separate sheet of paper each week before she turns the ticket over to her husband.

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