In 2022, a cargo ship got stuck in the mud, grounded off the coast of Maryland in Chesapeake Bay. Comedians had a field day with the vessel's name... the Ever Forward.

In 1979, a woman who jumped from the Empire State Building was blown back inside by a sudden gust of wind.

MacKenzie-Childs Ltd. once recalled 42,000 "paper candle shades" and advised consumers to "stop using the paper candle shades with candles."

Before the dot-com bubble popped, Priceline.com was worth more than the American airline industry. After, it was worth less than two Boeing 747s.

During a trust game in an acting class run by comedian Kathy Griffin, Mariska Hargitay fell backward and no one caught her.

In 2008, John McCain lost a presidential election to Barack Obama. "After I lost I slept like a baby," he later said. "Sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours, wake up and cry…"

A woman who bought a hair dryer on Amazon turned it on and found    flames shooting out of it.    

On 12 March 1928, William Mulholland, chief engineer of the L.A. Water Department, declared that the St. Francis Dam was safe. Hours later it failed, causing a flood that killed 600 people.

In 1946 Louis Reard, a French engineer who helped run his mom's lingerie shop, unveiled an invention named for the Bikini Atoll—site of America's first nuclear test—because he hoped the buzz would be "explosive." It wasn't. Reard's bikini took years to catch on.

Reese Witherspoon thought she had nailed an audition until the director asked, "Why are you playing it stoned?"