Shortcide: The Butterfly Effect

History doesn’t always change because of grand decisions. Sometimes it changes because of a wrong turn… or a forgotten petri dish.
In today's Shortcide, Bailey tells the unbelievable story of how a driver’s accidental turn down the wrong street placed Archduke Franz Ferdinand directly in front of Gavrilo Princip—triggering a chain reaction that would lead to World War I, the rise of Hitler, and the deadliest century in human history.
Then Chelsea explores the opposite side of fate: how a contaminated lab plate and one curious scientist led to the discovery of penicillin—an accident that…