A great little coffee table book about some of mankind's greatest blunders.
My favorite piece in the book is about how, in 1971, the Texas legislature officially honored a man for his pioneering work in population control. The problem was that the man was Albert DiSalvo - or as he was better known, "The Boston Strangler".
Apparently no one caught this as his "honor" was unanimously passed. Only the man who introduced the bill knew who DiSalvo was; he wanted to show everyone that the legislators really didn't pay attention to what they were passing.
My favorite piece in the book is about how, in 1971, the Texas legislature officially honored a man for his pioneering work in population control. The problem was that the man was Albert DiSalvo - or as he was better known, "The Boston Strangler".
Apparently no one caught this as his "honor" was unanimously passed. Only the man who introduced the bill knew who DiSalvo was; he wanted to show everyone that the legislators really didn't pay attention to what they were passing.
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