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Galti Se Mistake
Photo (detail): © YouTube

Bollywood Bloopers
Hinglish Mistakes and Bollywood’s Peter Pans

Aditya Mani Jha

The Peter Principle
© Laura Laakso

Error in the System
 The Peter Principle

Michael Krell

Cognitive dissonance
Illustration: © Atelier 10

Cognitive dissonance
 Climate Skeptics Versus Science

Vanessa Allnutt

Phone repair is becoming tougher as the years go by as phone makers want you to buy a new phone.
Photo: © Killian Seiler

Planned obsolescence
Mistakes that Force You to Keep Buying More

Nimish Sawant

Trail mix with scoop
Photo (detail): Marcos Paulo Prado © Unsplash

Infographic
 What’s in Your Trail Mix?

Kate Sammer and Savannah Beck

A mouth with one round and one jagged speech bubble
Illustration: Tobias Schrank © Goethe-Institut e. V.

False Friends
 Old Relatives

Thomas Böhm

Tromper les experts: mode d’emploi
Illustration: © Amélie Tourangeau

Art
 A Manual for Deceiving the Experts

Vanessa Allnutt

Man doing a plank and using laptop at home
Photo (detail): William Perugini © picture alliance / Westend61

Self-Improvement
 How We Make Headway

Maximilian Buddenbohm

Feier
Illustration (Detail): © Priya Kuriyan

Oops…
 Dictionary of Misinterpretations

Priya Kuriyan

Indians have a skewed sense of time. They’re perpetually late, even to their own parties.
Photo (detail): Icons8 Team © Unsplash

India’s sense of time
 Three Bidis Away

Saskya Jain

Diese Briefmarke mit dem Bild von Audrey Hepburn wurde am Auktionshaus Gärtner in Bietigheim-Bissingen am 22. Juni 2017 für 150.060 Euro versteigert.
Photo (detail): Auktionshaus Gärtner © picture alliance

Postage stamp errors
 The Blue Mauritius and its Companions

Michael M. Thoss

Failure as the motive behind the association: Piotr Mordel and Adam Gusowski from the Club of Polish Failure
Photo: © Darek Gontarski

Resisting success
 The Polish Failures Club

Michael M. Thoss

Business people holing construction plan
Photo (detail): photo agency WESTEND61 © picture alliance

A Hypothesis
 No Plan? That’s OK.

Maximilian Buddenbohm

English of India
Photo (detail): © knowledge must 2010

Indian English
 Hinglish - Where Singh is King

Faizal Khan

Crop of Marvel Comics “The Incredible Hulk” # 376, "Personality Conflict"
Photo: © Grand Comics Database™ | CC BY-SA 4.0

A Famous Misprint
 Gray Hulk – Green Hulk!

Stefan Kloo

Happy Accidents

Annu Rani: discovered by chance during cricket. Ranked 8th at the 2018 World Championships in javelin throw.
© DD News

Chance in Sport
 How India Discovers its Sporting Talents

Natalie Mayroth

Erfindungen Top 10
© Diego Schtutman/Shutterstock

Top 10
 Great Accidental Discoveries

Various authors

A product that nobody needed
Illustration: © Amélie Tourangeau

A product that nobody needed
 The Invention of the Post-It

Catherine Genest

The Invention of Mauveine
Illustration: © Amélie Tourangeau

Discovered by serendipity
 The Invention of the Color Purple

Vanessa Allnutt

This Cube sugar monument stands in the Czech town of Dačice.
Photo (detail): Marie Kučerová © Stadtmuseum Dačice

The sugar cube
 From Round to Square

Lucie Pantazopoulou Drahoňovská