The British journal of medicine reported in July of 2018 that a woman in England had 27 contacts removed from her eye.  She would put them in but wasn't always able to find them, so she just assumed they had fallen out. 

Actually, the lenses were slipping to the back of her eye and getting stuck.  She just kept adding new ones in, and they piled up. But despite having 27 lenses in her eye, her vision was not 27 times stronger.

Neatorama writes:

In 1876, Western Union had a monopoly on the telegraph, the world's most advanced communications technology. This made it one of America's richest and most powerful companies, with $41 million in capital and the pocketbooks of the financial world behind it. So when Gardiner Greene Hubbard, a wealthy Bostonian, approached [William] Orton with an offer to sell the patent for a new invention Hubbard had helped to fund, Orton treated it as a joke. Hubbard was asking for $100,000!

Orton bypassed Hubbard and drafted a response directly to the inventor. "Mr. Bell," he wrote, "after careful consideration of your invention, while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion that it has no commercial possibilities... What use could this company make of an electrical toy?"

The invention, the telephone, would have been perfect for Western Union. The company had a nationwide network of telegraph wires in place, and the inventor, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell, had shown that his telephone worked quite well on telegraph lines. All the company had to do was hook telephones up to its existing lines and it would have had the world's first nationwide telephone network in a matter of months.

Instead, Bell kept the patent and in a few decades his telephone company, renamed American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), had become the largest corporation in America ... The Bell patent - offered to Orton for a measly $100,000 - became the single most valuable patent in history. Ironically, less than two years of turning Bell down, Orton realized the magnitude of his mistake and spent millions of dollars challenging Bell's patents while attempting to build his own telephone network (which he was ultimately forced to hand over to Bell.)

Instead of going down in history as one of the architects of the telephone age, he is instead remembered for having made one of the worst decisions in American business history.

The first time I went snow skiing, I was overwhelmed. What does a flat-footed, flat-landed swamp boy from Louisiana know about snow skiing? I thought only way I was ever going to come down that mountain was in the ski patrol bone bucket. Thankfully, I discovered ski school. Ski school met on the bunny slope, which I considered to be a bit of an insult. But I went anyway, because I really needed the schooling. I discovered that not only could I stand up on skis, I could actually slide down the slope!

The problem with snow skiing is not sliding downhill, it's turning and stopping. My ski school instructor, named Ian or Lars or something like that, soon got to teaching me how to turn. He said, "turn right," and I would twitch and jerk right, but not turn. Ian or Lars said, "just look to the right," not understanding how that might help, I did it anyway. Sure enough, when I just looked to the right, I began to turn to the right. Same thing with turning left. "Just look to the left," Ian or Lars said. Bam, I went left. In fact, wherever I looked, that's the direction I went.