The New York Times Had a Mistake on Its Front Page Every Day for More Than a Century - Technology - The Atlantic
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Nobody knows exactly how it happened, but somehow, between February 6, 1898, and February 7, 1898, the issue numbering for The New York Times got a little ... off.
It’s easy enough to imagine the scene: A worker, late at night, setting the paper’s front-page type. He takes out the type from the preceding day’s paper. He looks at the issue number—14,499—and adds one. He gets 15,000.