Do you believe in coincidence? Or do you believe there are some larger, possibly evil mechanisms at work to make strange things happen the way they do? Whether you believe in fate or random events, here are 25 of the strangest coincidences that have ever occurred in recent history.
1. He's not joking
On June 20, 1940, soviet archaeologists discovered the mausoleum of Timur, a descendant of Genghis Khan. The warning inscription reads "Whoever opens my grave will unleash an intruder more terrible than I am." Anyway, they opened it. Two days later, Germany invaded the former Soviet Union.
2. Music Neighbors
If it weren't for the differences of 200 years, Jimmy Hendricks and George Handel would have been neighbors. They live at 23 and 25 Brook Street in London.
3. We want to know what their insurance looks like
In 1895, Ohio had only two cars. They collided. Then there were no cars.
4. Maybe there's something in the water
Stalin, Hitler and Franz Josef were jointly responsible for the deaths of some 80 million people, all of whom lived in Vienna at the same time.
5. Twins who are separated at birth have a strikingly similar life
The twins are so strange! A pair of twins from Ohio separated at birth and grew up ignorant of each other's existence. They were both named James at the time of their adoption (which may be a stranger coincidence in their respective families), and both grew up to be police officers and married a woman named Linda. Each of them had a son, one named James Allen and one named James Allen. They also each have a dog called Toy. They were both divorced, but then everyone remarried to a woman named Betty.
6. The first and last victim of the Hoover Dam
The first worker to die during the construction of the dam was J.G. Tierney on December 20, 1922. The last person to die there was J. Tierney's son, who died on December 20, 1935.
7. History repeats itself
Hitler was born 129 years later than Napoleon. He also came to power after Napoleon 129 years, invaded Russia 129 years after Napoleon, and was defeated after Napoleon 129 years.
8. License plates that signal more than anyone can imagine
The license plate number of the car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated was A III118. The official end of World War I was Armistice Day, November 11, 1918.
9. Don't take her to the cruise ship
Ms. Jessup was like an ominous sign of walking. When she was aboard the cruise ship Hawker, the ship sank. When she was on the Olympic, the ship also sank, she was on the cruise ship Britannia, of course she was on the Royal Cruises Titanic, these ships sank. Jessup was actually a flight attendant and nurse, so being on the boat was her job. She later became known as "Miss Unsinkable". These three doomed sinking ships are also "sister" ships.
10. We assume that they will tip at all times
In 1975, a man was hit and killed by a taxi in Bermuda. An unlucky passenger had to witness it with his own eyes. A year later, when the taxi hit and killed the brother of the original victim, the same taxi driver was driving the same passenger.
11. A whole bunch of camouflaged ships
During World War I, the British Army turned one passenger ship, The Kamania, into a warship disguised as another German passenger ship, the German Trafalgar. Confused? It got better. The camouflaged ship sank a German ship near Brazil in 1914. The ship was the real Trafalgar, which the Germans disguised as the British Kamaniah.
12. You really need to keep your baby out of the window
Someone on the street was apparently for the baby, because in the 1930s a man named Joseph Figlock was surprised that a fallen baby landed on his shoulder. On the same day the following year, the same baby fell on him again in the same place. Neither Figlock nor the baby was harmed, but we hope someone will give the family a warning.
13. Mark Twain's comet-like life
Halley's Comet passes through Earth about once every 76 years, so it's actually unlikely that it will be used to measure someone's life. Mark Twain was one such man, born in 1835 and died the day he appeared in 1910. He even predicted it in 1909.
14. An honest mistake
While designing a scenic scene for the video game Deus Ex, one of the artists left out the main landmark of the New York City skyline: the Petronas Twin Towers. To cover up the problem, the game made up something about terrorist attacks. This game was made in 2000.
15. Cases in which one adopts one's own opinion
Dani Dutoit, a 49-year-old South African astronomer, is giving a lecture on how death can strike at any time. When he finished, he shoved a mint into his mouth with too much force and choked to death.
16. Patient bullets
When his sister commits suicide after a failed relationship, a man vows revenge on the man Henry who broke her heart. Zieglan. He fired a shot at Zieglan, but it was deflected and the bullet got stuck in a nearby tree. Years later, Henry was clearing the land and using explosives to remove the trees. The bullet bounced off with considerable force, hitting Zieglan and killing him.
17. Eternal Neighbor
The first British soldier killed in World War II was buried just a few meters away from the last British soldier killed in World War II. This is not intentional.
18. The beginning and end of Rome by name
According to legend, Rome was founded by Romulus, who is said to have been raised by a wolf along with his brother Remus. The last emperor of Rome was named Romulus Augustus.
19. Twin deaths
In 2002, a Man in Finland was killed while trying to cross Highway 8 on his bicycle. Two hours later, his twin brothers tried the same crossing and were also killed, so they were killed about a kilometer and a half apart, two hours apart.
20. Twin mortality is higher
On May 22, 1975, twins John and Arthur Mofoss both suffered from heart disease. They lived 120 kilometers apart and were taken to different hospitals without knowing each other's condition. Each of them died shortly after.
American writer Anne Parrish found a fairy tale book, Jack Frost and Other Stories, and began telling her husband that she loved it very much as a child. Opening it, she found that the inside cover read: "Anne Parrish, 209 Weber Street, Colorado."
Mr. Bryson registered twice
George W. Mr. D. Bryson stayed at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, only to find that the previous occupant was also George W. Bush. Mr. D. Bryson.
22. We want to be friends or at least three people who make up a band
In the 1920s, legend has it that three Britons met on a train somewhere in Peru. The first is called Bingham, the second is called Powell, and the third is called Bingham Powell.
23. Not twins, but twins who die
King Umberto I of Italy had a strange dining experience when he discovered that he was born in the same town on the same day as the owner of a restaurant where he was eating, and both married a woman named Margaret. On July 29, 1900, the King learned that the restaurateur had been shot dead in the street. Later that day, the king was also assassinated.
24. The Book of Truth
Edgar Allen Poe's only novel, The Story of Arthur Gordon Pym, tells the story of an ill-fated voyage to Antarctica. In one scene, four shipwreck survivors float on a raft and decide to eat the cabin boy Richard Parker in order to survive. In 1884, a ship named Mignonette sank, leaving four survivors. They also decided to eat the cabin boy to survive. The name of the cabin boy? Richard Parker.