40 incredible coincidences that you will not really believe

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When coincidence strikes, most people find themselves divided into two camps: those who are inclined to reject such events as at random, and those who feel a greater meaning or model behind them. However, despite the way your unlikely doppelgänger encounter or share the same birthday as your best friend may seem, look a little closer and you'll see that the universe is constantly conspirited to add extracts from happy coincidence in our life daily. Here we have compiled the most surprising coincidences of all time. So, read it and prepare to be surprised by these coincidences so shocking, they even make themore skeptical believe in destiny.

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Birth of Mark Twain and death coincides with Halley's comet.

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more known under his pen name,Mark TWAIN, Was born in 1835, the same year that Halley's comet made his first appearance. The comet made a second appearance in 1910, the year when Twain died, and the author, according to theNew York Times, Famous predicts that both events coincide. He quoted as saying, "The Almighty said, no doubt," Now, here are these two inexplicable phenomena, they came together, they must go out together. »

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Stephen Hawking shares his dates of birth and death with Galilee and Einstein, respectively.

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Theoretician physician,cosmologistAnd authorStephen Hawking was celebrated born the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo, and he died on what would have been the 139th anniversary of Einstein. That said, the question much more confusing statistical improbability surrounding the life of Hawking is the fact that he has survived 76 despite life with Lou Gehrig's disease.

Although we know very little about the disease, according toAmerican scientist, Most people diagnosed live for about five years of past diagnosis. Yet Hawking survived for more than five additional decades, allowing him to shareits crucial ideas and gifts With the world, not to mention its legendary humor.

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Political opponents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died a few hours on the 4th of July.

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The relationship between the former presidentsThomas Jefferson andJohn Adams took a lot of twists over the years. They started like allies, then gradually increased in opponents that their policy divide them. The last two surviving members of the American revolutionaries of the British Empire, they ended up reconciled and corresponded by mail until their last years. Theyfamous is dead In a few hours from each other the same day in 1826: on theOn the four of July, Not less.

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A meteor struck the house of the computing family.

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National Geographic reports May your chances of being killed by a meteor are 1 to 1,600,000. So, odds seem infinitesimal that a meteor that had stolen in space for more than four and a half billion years without touching a target would hit a family's home with the surname "Absolute. " According toTimeIn a bizarre case of cosmic synchronity, which is exactly what happened to a family in France. Fortunately, no one was wounded, and the Candrels are now the proud owners of their own extremely rare alien rock.

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Anthony Hopkins arrived on a signed copy of the book he was looking for in a train station.

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In the early 1970s,Anthony Hopkins was planned to play in a Kostyamovie adaptation ofThe daughter of Petrovka. To prepare for the role, he undertookread the bookBut could not find a copy in a book store despite a rigorous search. Then, likeInternet legend hasWhile sitting in a London metro station, he noticed a copy of this book even someone left behind. When he opened it, he found that the book had been signed by his author,George Feifer.

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John Wilkes Booth's brother saved the son of Abraham Lincoln from death.

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John Wilkes Booth and Abraham Lincolnwould have a coincident family relationship Long before Booth fired Lincoln on this fateful day in April in 1865. Brother of Booth, Edwin, was a little famous theater actor who ardently supported the Union during the Civil War. While in a train station in New Jersey, the son of Lincoln,Robert Todd Lincoln, Leaning against a train stopped, near falling on the slopes as he started again.Edwin Booth seized him by the pass and saved him just in time. The young Lincoln recognized his hero and wrote about the incident, but it was necessary to wait until years later that Booth discovered who he had saved.

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And this same son of Lincoln witnessed three presidential assassinations.

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Although it would be rare for being present for the death of a president,Robert Todd Lincoln was in any present for not a way, not two, butThree presidential assassinations. Although he was not there at the theater during his father's fateful turning, he was rushed to his deathbed and sat at his side until the Elder Lincoln died. Later, he was an eyewitness of the assassination ofPresident James A. Garfield. Finally, in 1901, Lincoln was nearby in Buffalo, New York, at the invitationPresident William McKinleyWhen the president was shot dead.

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A coupled commitment discovered their parents almost married another.

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As said in an episode of NPRThis American Life, Entitled "No coincidence, No Story,"Stephen andHelen Lee Just engaged when they made a shocking family discovery. While looking through family photos at their restaurant party in New York, they realized that the mother's mother and father of the bride's groom had almost married in Korea in the 1960s, but moved on Other relationships becauseTheir parents disapproved. In incredibly narrow luck, the two loves of Lee's father's life two different sides of the world, no less today share decades grandchildren later.

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A woman survived theTitanic,British, andOlympic shipwrecks.

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Purple jessop was a nurse and stewardess of the air who won the nickname "Miss insubmersible" by the two survivors of the accidents of theTitanic In 1912 and his sistership, theBritannic, Which gathered the same fate in 1916. Jessup would also have been aboard a third boat, theOlympic RMSWhen he struck a warship, but fortunately, theOlympic remained afloat.

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The first and last battles of the civil war were delivered next to the same property in the man different cities.

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The civil war broke out in 1861 with the first battle of Bull Run. References "Bull Run" The name of a stream that serpentled through the farm of a 46-year-old boyfrier namedWilmer McLeanIn Manassas, Virginia. After the devastation of the battle, McLean left to find the security in a new home with his wife in Appomattox, Virginia, and for four years pretty much, it was indeed sure that the bloody war has exceeded the nation. In 1865, the war ended whenRobert E. Lee given toUlysses S. Grant At the courthouse, just appotomax no new McLean property.

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The first and last soldiers killed in the First World War are buried next to each other.

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At the moment when the First World War ended, he had claimed about a million British lives. Yet, in a way, without any planning, the first recorded English victim of the war, soldier, aged 17John ParrAnd the last 15-year-old registered victimGeorge Edwin Ellison,apparently Have tombs that face only 15 feet away in the Saint Symphorien district the military cemetery.

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A man missed two Malaysian Air flights that crashed.

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In 2014, there were two tragic aircraft accidents involving Air Malaysia flights. The first has been shot on Ukraine, and the second has disappeared without trace somewhere from the Indian Ocean in the greatest mystery of aviation of all time. Beyond the fact that both incidents have the same airline in a short period of time, there was another striking coincidence: Dutch cyclistMAARTEN OF JONGE was planned for flightsBut death cheated by banging his ticket at the eleventh hour, when less expensive options have become available.

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A father and his son were the first and last victims during the construction of the Hoover-14 years intervals.

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According toOffice of Reclamation United States, On the 21,000 people who worked on the construction of the Hoover dam, there were 96 dead on the site. Among the first wasJ.G. TIERTERY, Who drowned with his colleague on December 20, 1922 while leading a geological study before construction. Fourteen years later, exactly the anniversary of Tierney's death, the final death of the project was recorded. He was his son,Patrick Tierney, Who, according to theLas Vegas Review-Journal, Fell from an electric lap.

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A woman's husband found a dollar she wrote about, hoping to find a husband.

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As said in an episode of NPRThis American Life,EstherandPaul GrachanI have been seen in a short time when Paul decided to ask him to be his girlfriend. That day, while paying for a sandwich, he noticed that an invoice of a dollar that he was about to put the cashier back had the name "Esther" written on this one in pencil. To what extent, he thought, that it had to happen just when he thought about their relationship. He kept the bill and decided to frame him and give it as a gift. She was "speechless" when she saw it, but tells him to ask him to talk to him later.

The years passed, they engaged, then married and the dollar framed resurfaced at home. Apparently, Esther had written his name on the dollar and a few others after a break and is herself at the time she married the man who brought him back to her. She did not tell her why she was so speechless because she thought she was making the marriage so early in the relationship would scare her. But she believed right now he was "the one".

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Laura Buxton 10 years released a red balloon and another Laura Buxton, aged 10, found.

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In a story told on the Wync podcastRadiomazIn 2001, a 10-year-old girl namedLaura Buxton stood in his front yard with a red balloon. On the side of the ball, she had written the words ", please return to Laura Buxton", with his address. She then released it in a strong wind.

The balloon traveled about 140 miles south before going down and finally landed in the courtyard of another 10-year-old girl. The name of the second girl? AlsoLaura Buxton! After contacting the coincidence and explain the coincidence, girls decided to meet and discovered a range of incredible similarities. Not only did they look like the appearance and the dress, but the two girls had three-year-old chocolate laboratories, a gray rabbit and a guinea pig, and both brought their guinea pigs to the unplanned meeting.

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Joan Ginther marked more than $ 20 million in four scratch lottery wins.

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AsInternal business community notes, we should be a bit skeptical of the "coincidence" ofJoan Ginther Win the lottery four times more. Not because it strikesurban legend, like many of these stories do, but because Dr. Stanford. Graduate studied statistics and may have stacked the chances in his favor. Yet even with the help of a strategy, chances to succeed in shooting four times are still weak. GINTHER marked multi-million dollar scratch tickets each of the four times, winning a total of more than $20 millions. And if you want to hit him big, know thatThese are the most common Powerball winning numbers.

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Tsutomo Yamaguchi has survived both the attacks both Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Tsutomo Yamaguchi is either incredibly lucky or incredibly unlucky, depending on how you look at it: it is unlucky to be present in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the time of their catastrophic atomic attacks, and yet the chance he miraculously survived at a time.Yamaguchi would have fled Hiroshima in search of security, wrapping to Nagasaki only to see a second flash of white light that would cover more than half of its body in burn of radioactive ash. Yamaguchi is the only person recognized by the Japanese government as having survived the bombing. Unfortunately, he died in 2010 from cancer.

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"Dog", in the lost language, Mbabaram, is "dog".

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Mbabaram is a dying Aboriginal languageIn Australia - and one that could not seem less like English. So it's surprise when linguists study Mbabaram realized that the word of the tribe for "dog" is "dog", without connection or derivation of the English speech. Coincidence is technically considered a false cognate, because they sound the same, but only coincidently share a meaning. This particular case is often used to warn people to assume a relationship between words based on surface similarities.

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A French poet met with the man who introduced him to plum pudding each time he ate plum pudding.

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According to the Book of Mathematia Joseph MazurPaw, the French poet of the nineteenth centuryÉmile Deschamps Known a coincidence for record books. As a teenager, he met an English namedM. de Fortgibu, who introduced Deschamps to Plum Pudding for the first time. About a decade later, Deschamps saw the plum pudding in a restaurant menu and ordered it, but the waiter said he had sold the last to a man at the back of the restaurant, then called to M. de Fortgibu by his name. Another past decade and Deschamps went to a dinner serving for plum pudding. He joked that the party must be for M. de Fortgibu, who then stopped at the door at that time! He was accidentally coming to the wrong door, on his way to another dinner.

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A couple found wedding wishes in a bottle written the same day as they get married.

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AsCBS News reported,FredandLynette Dubendorf Walk in the beach with their dog, picking up the small pieces of trash that they had discovered, when they noticed something in a small plastic bottle washed on the coast. Looking closer, they found that it was a message containing the wedding vows of another couple,Kloska melodyandMatt Behrs, who had recently had his wedding ceremony on a beach of Lake Michigan.

The note contained the address of the couple and the date of marriage, that the DubEndorfs were surprised to discover was the same as its own date of beach wedding. They took it as an happy sign that their two weddings were "intended to be" and wrote a letter to congratulate the newlyweds - their total shock.

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Amanda Birch discovered that his teacher and mother lived in the same house.

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In a story for NPRHidden brain, a radio show and a podcast "on the invisible models of life," a woman namedAmanda birch Recounted an amazing discovery that she made while talking to her writing professor at the University of Rhode Island. The teacher mentioned that she lived in a small town of Vermont, that Boulech shared enthusiastically was the same city as her mother had grown up. When Birch told his teacher name of his mother's girl, it's when things really realized that the teacher realized that the teacher lived in the same house his mother had grown up.

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Solar eclipses require such specific conditions to be almost impossible.

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Just as we have remarkable coincidences, our solar system too. The total solar eclipse is such a strange and unlikely event that throughout history, it has been interpreted as a paranormal and mythologized omen with folklore. Although the sun and the moon are very different sizes, the phenomenon is able to unfold becausethe sun It is about 400 times wider than the moon, but also 400 times further, both appear of the same size. According toMoronIf the sun was larger or the moon was further away, we would probably never see a total solar eclipse, because the moon would not seem wide enough to block our view.

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Flight 666 flew to Hel on Friday 13.

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There are many "coincidences" (read: the theories of the plot from far blung) on ​​the internet involving number 666, but this storyis true! FINNAIR 666 left Copenhagen and landed in Helsinki (HEL) on Friday 13. You have read this right: flight 666 stole directly to Hel on the most harmful day. Fortunately for passengers on board, coincidence ended there: they landed safely at their final destination.

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Two sets of separated twins at birth were founded.

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In 2015,New York Times magazine published onextraordinary story Two sets of identical twins that have been divided at birth and have elevated two series of fraternal twins in Bogota, Colombia.

The story started when a colleague from Jorge, one of the twins, had a chance meeting with his biological twin, William, in Butcher's store where William worked. The colleague was shocked by William's incredible resemblance to Jorge and told him what she had seen. When she showed a picture of Jorge a photo of the man in the butcher's, they removed his Facebook page to find out that it was in many photos with a person who looked like the cleanliness of Jorge, Carlos. The two sets of twins eventually met and stay in touch today.

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A couple ended up in the same childhood photo.

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Aimee Maiden andNick Wheeler placed through old family photographs in anticipation of their next marriage, only to discover aStriking school: They had unconsciously taken their first picture as a child, 11 years before their meeting. Although the two grew more than 300 miles away in the opposite corners of England, the Nick family was on abeach holidaysIn the hometown of Aimee, and the stripping of the two loved shows and his family just sitting behind Nick, both playing in the sand.

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A father has found his daughter for a long time in the background of his photo.

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According toThe daily mail, Michael Dick and his daughter of origin, Lisa, did not see each other for more than 10 years when he started looking for it again. Michael and his wife then had separated, and Lisa and his mother moved away from Suffolk, England. In the hope that Lisa would see him and contact him, Michael contacted a newspaper and asked them to publish a current photo of him and his othertwo girls.

Not only was Lisa saw the picture, she realized that she and her mother stood in the farnm of her. His father had been totally unconscious that she was right just day when the photographer broke down.

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Sailor Richard Parker was cannibalized - like the poe character of the same name.

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InEdgar Allen Poe's 1838 Roman,Arthur Gordon Nantucket Story, a team of four men is shipwrecked and lost at sea without food or water. In the end, the team decides that they must turn into cannibalism to survive and attracts straws to decide who will be sacrificed so that the rest can live. The character chosen (and then consumed) was named Richard Parker.

In 1884,A real ship was shipwrecked And one of the comrades - also named Richard Parker-has become sick after drinking sea water. The rest of the crew decided to despair to kill and eat Parker before becoming too stilled by the disease. The remaining men were saved, but accused of murder upon their return to the coast.

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Two Dennis threat characters emerged in different countries of the same year.

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You probably know the cartoon characterDennis The Threat, an adorable, so bad, little boy who burst on the stage in March 1951 with his dog, Ruff. But did you know that at the same month of that year, just across the Atlantic in U.K.,another comic book Dennis the threat Was launched? This British Dennis was a little more sinister than his American counterpart, intentionally rather than causing chaos inadvertently. Surprisingly, there are no signs of plagiarism in this case: the characters have been manufactured independently but simultaneously, finally occupying a similar place in the cultural landscape of their respective countries.

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Author Robert Morgan predicted the tragic end of Titanic.

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AuthorRobert Morgan delicateThe wreck of titan or futilityIn 1898, fourteen before the Titanic ends at its end - and there are narrow similarities between the novella fictitious and the actual events that took place. Beyond the coincidence of the names of ships and the two described as "invisible", it is reported that the fictional titan and the Titanic had trouble after hitting icebergs on the starboard side of the ship. They were both 400 km from Newfoundland when they flowed, both the evenings of April, and in both cases passengers were tragically because of a shortage of rescue canoes.

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The triplets encountered after being separated at birth as part of an experiment.

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The documentary 2018Three identical foreignersTell the story of three young men-Robby, David and Eddie - who discovered in 1980 that they were identical triplets, adopted at different families. Two of the three boys attended the same university by coincidence and were then contacted by the third brother after the Fluke meeting was published by the media. It turns out that the boys had been separated as part of a"Nature vs. Nourrir" Studying by a New York psychologist in the 1960s. The study was never published, but their lives were of course modified permanently by their adoptions.

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The "Jim Twins" were separated at birth, but have led almost identical lives.

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The twins and coincidences seem to go from hand. For starters, the probability of conceivingtwins is relatively low to 33 in 1,000, but frequently, the strange circumstances are deeper than that - and the "Jim twins" are an excellent example. Separate at birth and raised by different families of Ohio, they finally met at the age of 39 years. The two sets of adopted parents have been named the James boys and called them "JIM" for the short circuit. The two men marry twice; Remarkably, the first two women have been named Linda and the two seconds women have been named Betty. The two had a son, who both named James Allen.According to Ripley's, They led the same car, had similar jobs and even holidays in the same place!

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Anne Parrish ended the same copy of a book she possessed as a child.

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In 1929, the novelistAnne Parrish was amble along the Seine, and stopped at a book stall in the titles travel. One of his old favorites,Jack Frost and other stories, Attracted his attention, she bought the copy for a franc. She then met her husband, who was sitting in a neighboring café, and showed him the copy. His mouth was when he saw what was written inside: his name and address.The copy had been hisWhen she was a child.

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The simpsons predicts Donald Trump's presidency.

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This is not the only oneprecise forecast get out ofThe simpsons"Writer's room, but he's sure that the most extraordinary: in 2000, the show published an episode that sawDonald Trump as president. While some might argue that the forecasts of the showCan be explained, We will also keep in mind that pontiffs, the surveyors, most of the American population, and even Donald Trump was himselfAll surprised by Trump's victory. Whether for writersThe simpsons have a good adventure speaker on the speed dial or are only in phase with the impetus of the American people, it was a pretty remarkable prediction (unless, of course, the cartoon gave it the idea of ​​running).

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Alec Guinness predicts James Dean's death.

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In the case of the car that killedJames DeanThere is a real question of whether we are looking at an unfortunate series of coincidences, a curse or poor quality engineering.According toJalopnik, whenAlec Guinness Given the "sinister" car looking, he said Dean, "If you get in this car, you will be found dead in this time next week. Seven days, it was later. After Dean's deadly accident, the recoverable parts of the Porsche 550 Spyder were sold new, and continued to cause several other accidents for their new owners, including two other independent deaths and several wounded.

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The chances of the existing universe are so small, they are virtually impossible.

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If the chance of meetings and plum pudding make you question the fabric of the universe, try this one on the size: as explained.Professor Katie MackOur entire universe could be described as a coincidence, as we exist in an unlikely unlikely false vacuum that could crumble at any time if it came into contact with a real void.

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Enzo Ferrari from Doppelgänger Mesut Özil was born the same year Ferrari is dead.

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Enzo Ferrari, founder of the Italian automobile of the same name, died the same year as the football playerMesut ozil It was born: 1988. It would be in itself entirely devoid of meaning, except that the two men look almost identical in many photographs, people leading to note that genetic coincidence makes a strong case for reincarnation.

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Twins Helen Mae Cook and Clara Mae Cook, died the same day.

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Identical twinsHelen Mae Cook, andClara Mae Mitchell Always everything done together. The sisters were born on February 2, 1932, and family members reported a very united link between childhood at the golden age. So when Clara died of a heart attack at the age of 83, he is unsurprisingly to their families that Helen would die only hours later that same day. For the rest of us, however, the fact is undeniably strange. Helen had been struggling with more than six years of Alzheimer, and could have succed his illness at any time. "It's the way they would have liked," Hélène's daughter noticed in ainterview withUnited States today.

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Xu Weifang saved a drowning father and his 30-year-old son.

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It would have been an incredible story without coincidence: 80 years oldXU Weifang From Jiangsu Province, China saved an eight-year-old boy from drowning, despite its advanced age and recent injuries. Corn,according toNewsweekThe events took a strange turn when Xu discovered that 30 years before, he had actually saved the father of the boy of drowning as well. With these odds, it is clear why some people believe in guardian angels!

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Roberto Clemente became the first baseball player to reach 3000 times-his last day playing ball.

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Pittsburgh Pirates Voltigeur on the rightRoberto Clemente Makes the history of baseball by becoming the first Latin American player (and 11 throughout Major League) to reach 3000 safe strokes in 1972. The coincidence of all this? This very awaited step would behis last success ever On the Major League field, according to the MLB. The Hall of Fame was unfortunately killed shortly after in an aircraft off the coast of Puerto Rico on the road to a humanitarian journey to Nicaragua.

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Royce Burton explained how a Ranger of Texas saved his life - and back to mid-history,

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As indicated by CNN,Royce Burton Known an incredible coincidence in front of a whole class of witnesses. Burton, teacher at a New Jersey University, decided to tell a class story a story that had taken place in 1940, back when he was a Texas Ranger in Rio Grande. As the story went, he had become disoriented while leaving a canyon and almost lost his equilibrium just as he reached the summit. At the right time, another Ranger has passed and dragged security by its rifle strap. The two connected people, but lost contact when they are both enlisted as soldiers in the Second World War. Just as he told the story, which should walk in the classroom but Joe, the other forest guard. Joe had found him in all those years later and I just walked at the precise moment he told the story. And if you are looking to make the most of your trip, fly these33 trip hacks that make a summer holiday a total breeze!

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