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Top 15 Strangest Coincidences

2spare.com — "Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910."

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  • mattwood24, on 10/12/2007, -133/+10Speaking of coincidences, I just saw this a fark
    • IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36Yes.

      Your point being?
    • thestorey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+78Head Shot through Double doors on De_Dust2?
    • bbrosemer, on 10/12/2007, -26/+3Is it just me or do I get the feeling I saw this on here yesterday...?
    • z00k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+43http://www.duggmirror.com/offbeat_news/Top_15_Strangest_Coincidences_3/
      http://www.duggmirror.com
    • Dolomite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17nah, it's not you. Its not unusual for people to keep re-submitting the same articles over and over again.
    • JC4P, on 10/12/2007, -20/+2The article was ok, but it was over hyping some stuff. Like the guy who got hit with 4 bolts of lighting, he was in the military, so he probably had a bullet or some other piece of metal still in his body.
      And the one with the 3 generations dieing of lighting bolts, they might have had some hereditary disease.
    • effward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16@ thestorey

      It's either coincidence or hacks :P
    • 1021, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53They missed one about Kennedy and Lincoln:

      Lincoln had a secretary, last name Kennedy, who didn't want him to go to Ford theater. Kennedy had a secretary, last name Lincoln, who didn't want him to go to Texas.
    • zonk3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Article posted on digg goes dead. Coincidence? I think not.

      Bonus: Article hosted on a ASP server goes dead. Coincidence? You decide.
    • enkafan, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4zonk3r:
      ASP.Net application crashed because MySQL backend couldn't handle the load, and people blame ASP. Coincidence? :)
    • bentrop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Most of these coincidences seem forced or inaccurate.
      Mark Twain was indeed born and he died around the time of Halley's Comet but so did thousands of other people. He did not however day on "day of the appearance" which wouldn't really be a one day only occurrence anyways. Mark Twain died April 21st that year, Halley's Comet was most prominent May 18th, a month later.

      There isn't and never was a magazine called "Das Besteran" in Germany, the word doesn't exist nor does it make any sense at all. If you search Google for this magazine you will simply find a lot of translations of this list of coincidences, excluding a German one. While the story might have a core of truth, the way it is told seems to be incredibly incorrect. All details to the story seem to be made up.

      I could go on, but this list looks more like a list of urban legends than a list of factual coincidences.
    • NachoBusiness, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@1021

      Uh, no, they didn't miss that one because it's an urban legend. Per Snopes:

      This is one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence at all -- it's simply wrong. John Kennedy did have a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (who may or may not have warned him about going to Dallas), but one searches in vain to find a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy. (Lincoln's White House secretaries were John G. Nicolay and John Hay.)

      http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm
    • carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3haha, you might want to not use .inc for your includes...

      http://2spare.com/_UC/items_code.inc

      :)
    • fauxXenophanes, on 10/12/2007, -7/+216. I was on-line and so was this ***** top 15 list.
    • oliversaid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico in 1519 coincided with the year in the Mayan Calendar when it was predicted that the pale-faced man-god Quetzalcoatl would return to reclaim the city of Tenochtitlán. The Aztecs therefore assumed Cortés to be the legendary man-god, which assisted him in capturing the city and thence Mexico. "

      Apocalypto was great.
  • notforsale, on 10/12/2007, -1/+47"Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella Futility had many parallels with the RMS Titanic disaster; the book concerned a fictional state-of-the-art ocean liner called Titan, which (like the Titanic) eventually collides with an iceberg on a calm April night whilst en route to New York, with many dying because of the lack of lifeboats. Various other details in the book coincide with the Titanic disaster. Later, she wrote a book, Beyond the Spectrum, that described a future war fought with aircraft that carried "sun bombs". Incredibly powerful, one bomb could destroy a city, erupting in a flash of light that blinds all who look at it. The war begins in December, started by the Japanese with a sneak attack on Hawaii. "

    That's definitely one of the more interesting ones.
    • md81544, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Sounds fascinating, but reading his Wikipedia entry paints a different picture: "the novel's resemblance to the Pearl Harbor attack is remote", "Despite claims to the contrary, airplanes do not play a role in the 1914 short story, nor does the United States use "sun bombs" on Japan" &c. &c.
    • spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3If that happened right now, conspiracy nuts would be saying she caused both.
  • RichPowers, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Very interesting, especially the Titanic one. I'm surprised they left this one off (from Wiki):

    *Jefferson and John Adams were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become Presidents.
    *On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, Adams died at Quincy, after (allegedly) uttering the famous last words "Thomas Jefferson still survives." Unbeknownst to Adams, Jefferson had died five hours earlier.
    • afeitarse, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28Um, those aren't coincidences...just interesting facts.
    • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20Those are coincidences. The only presidents to sign the Declaration of Independence dies on the exact day of the half centennial, within hours apart.
  • thefutureisours, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2wel hey, lookie here:

    http://www.amazon.com/Wreck-Titan-Futility-Morgan-Robertson/dp/0899668216/sr=8-1/qid=1166299399/ref=pd_bbs_1

  • ArrEmmDee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hello http://duggmirror.com/
  • Skas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I thought it wasn't half bad, but the Lincoln-JFK stuff is a little overreaching.
    • MrChocolate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I agree.

      There is no way that Kennedy said, "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it." Way too specific to say.
    • ch33sehead, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I stopped reading that one at "Both men studied law." OF COURSE THEY STUDIED LAW! How many presidents didn't study law?
    • SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@MrChocolate

      You can no more demonstrate that he didn't say those words than anybody can demonstrate that he did. Probably not true but there's no telling for certain either way.
    • 35chililights, on 10/29/2007, -8/+2No. you people have it all wrong.


      T h e s e a r e n o t c o i n c i d e n c e s

      this is what happens when the lazy ass computers copy and paste data in the matrix. sometimes they forget to go back and change the values.

      it is really a QA/QC problem more then anything.
  • thepromise, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Wow, Lincoln and JFK.... there must have been a glitch in the Matrix.
    • 35chililights, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0damnit, i didnt see your post. sorry i posted above.
  • ArrEmmDee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28God apparently reuses storyline ideas!
    • stcmoose32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...and yet we give Google a hard time for one measly page.
  • aurrea, on 10/12/2007, -9/+23These are the dumbest coincidences I've EVER heard:

    A. Lincoln and J.F. Kennedy

    Life

    Both presidents had 7 letters in their last name.
    Both were over 6' feet tall.
    Both men studied law.
    Both seemed to have lazy eye muscles, which would sometimes cause one to deviate.
    Both suffered from genetic diseases. It is suspected that Lincoln had Marfan's disease, and Kennedy suffered from Addison's disease.
    Both served in the military. Lincoln was a scout captain in the Black Hawk War, and Kennedy served as a navy lieutenant in World War II.
    Both were boat captains. Lincoln was a skipper for the Talisman, a Mississippi River boat, and Kennedy was skipper of the PT 109.
    Both had no fear of their mortality and disdained bodyguards.
    Both often stated how easy it would be to shoot the president. Lincoln supposedly said, "If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do to prevent it." Kennedy supposedly said "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it." Note that both these quotes are each 16 words long.
  • mcdett, on 10/12/2007, -52/+0Server Error in '/' Application.
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    Source File: D:inetpub2secret_UCitems_code.inc Line: 218

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  • jettloe, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16Just did a quick check - several of the 'coincidences' = not true/urban myths/exaggerated.
    • InaneBanana, on 10/12/2007, -15/+10Prove it.
    • inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14Gosh, InaneBanana, too bad you weren't sitting in front of a computer so you could go to Google and check for yourself.
  • unibeat, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Now i want to read that book predicting the titanic incident, that list was pretty interesting and I'm glad i took the time to read it over.
  • GoldenGopher1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30They missed another - I picked up my phone and was about to call my brother and when I picked up - HE WAS ALREADY ON THE PHONE!! HE was going to call ME! It all happened so quickly, I don't think I will ever recover....
    • InaneBanana, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Thats happened to me many times, and i'm sure its happened to everyone, or at least will in time.
    • MSTK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I was going to go to a local theme park, and I called my friend to ask him if he wanted to come. His sister answered and told me that he was out.
      I went to said themepark, and within the hour I found said friend already there. He had no I idea that I was going to be there.
    • cvindustries, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Sorry MSTK, I've got to top your story. 2 years ago, I went with a friend to NYC. She was going to see her boyfriend run the NYC marathon, I was going to visit a different friend living in Manhattan, so we drove together but stayed in separate boroughs. On my first day of wandering around, I ran into her at Washington Square Park.

      7 million people in the city, and I ran into the 1 person that I knew was wandering around herself that day, without even trying.
    • cvindustries, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2And here's one more to tell (share your own stories if you got 'em). My wife can't go anywhere without running into someone she knows. We went to Barcelona on our honeymoon this summer. My wife knows 1 person from Barcelona, a girl she met 3 years ago at a camp in Michigan. Sure enough, on our last day in the city, we ran into her. On another note, we ran into one of her friends while changing planes in Atlanta the next day.
    • mikesbaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@cvindustries
      what a surprise 2 tourists finding each other in one of the biggest tourist attractions in a city. What are the odds? I'd say pretty damn good.
    • phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@cvindustries

      sounds like your wife is a whore. i'm sure paris hilton gets that effect too
  • sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21"Mark Twain was born on the day of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910."

    more evidence to support my theory that Mark Twain was an alien.
    • dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
      - Mark Twain, a Biography

      i'd say more of a freak then an alien :)
  • alexgg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I recently got an assignment in high school, where our History Teacher asked about this Kennedy and Lincoln coincidences and doing my research I found out this pages among many others. Thought you might liked them.

    http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm
    http://www.kilty.com/l_and_k.htm
  • OiJunkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@JC4P

    hereditary disease = fatally allergic to lightning
  • antonio97b, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oregon's Columbian newspaper?
    Vancouver, Washingtons newspaper is The Columbian.
    Oregon's main newspaper the Oregonian. There is no "Oregon Columbian".

    http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/
    http://www.columbian.com/
  • jettloe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1re InaneBanana's comment 'prove it' - check out Morgan Robertson's wikipedia entry and compare to the 'coincidence' entry - that's just one 1 out of several i found in about 90secs on the web - have fun with the rest.
  • f4st4word, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You can expect a miracle (literally a one-in-a-million occurrence) to happen to you about once a month, simply because so many things happen to you:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%27s_Law_of_Miracles
  • Mearn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15They missed the one where Al Gore was born almost exactly nine months after the Roswell UFO incident of 1947. Or was that a coincidence?
  • gert2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5They didn't mention the placement of the Earth.
  • ltkerr0r, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Wasn't there something about the car too? Like Lincoln was shot in ford's theater and JFK was shot in a Ford Lincoln? Something like that.
    • SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm willing to bet that if you RTFA, it will answer your question.
  • chocolatey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Darwin and Abraham Lincoln: born on the same day.

    Aldous Huxley and JFK: died on the same day.

    Personally, I annoyed that Wolfram's Rule 110 isn't called Rule 42:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110_cellular_automaton
  • inc4, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Its mirrored here enjoy!: http://inc-omplete.org/2006/12/16/mirror-top-15-strangest-coincidences/
  • foolonthehill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No mention of Dave Gorman, so it must be innaccurate.
  • beatoven, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1My No.1 coincidence is that the guy my gf (the love of my life) left me for was her housemate who took the flowers i sent her on valentine's day from the postman to give her :(
    F**kin ass***e n f**kin b**ch
  • advancedbobo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2They forgot one. The 43rd president of the United States, his vice president and Secretary of State were named Bush, Dick and Colin (colon).
  • chocolatey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh, and Shakespeare died on his birthday.

    And to pre-empt the inevitable: Yes, it is remarkable how he managed to squeeze all those plays into just one day.
    • technothrasher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Wow, I guess I'm the opposite of Shakespeare... I was born on my birthday!
    • ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The funny fact is that you have the same chance of dying on your birthday as on any other day (generally speaking).
  • PsyDev, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Clarification from Wikipedia:
    "Robertson included a short story called Beyond the Spectrum, which described a future war between the United States and Japan, a popular subject at the time. ... Japan does not declare war but instead launches sneak attacks on United States ships en route to the Philippines and Hawaii; an invasion fleet about to conduct a surprise attack on San Francisco is stopped by the hero using the weapon from a captured Japanese vessel. The title refers to an ultraviolet searchlight used by the Japanese (but invented by the Americans) to blind American crews. Some readers have compared the searchlight's effects (blindness, intense heat, and facial burns) to those of the atomic bomb. Despite claims to the contrary, airplanes do not play a role in the 1914 short story, nor does the United States use "sun bombs" on Japan, so except for the sneak attack (which anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Japanese military history could have predicted), the novel's resemblance to the Pearl Harbor attack is remote."

    Whoever posted this to digg has no taste. Buring as "totally lame".
    • ejstacey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Hey! Just like I'm doing to your comment. What a coincidence.
  • inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Best line from the article:

    "Both Johnsons had urethral stones..."
    • SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Brilliant, I didn't even notice that.
    • 35chililights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1awesome. props for catching that.
  • bixing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love how their code in the aspx page is pure crap.

    Way to code something wrong! No wonder the site is dugg.
  • praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -3/+1The strangest coincidence to happen to me was when I opened a fortune cookie that said "You will soon be near mountains and water" and that weekend I was going camping near some little river by Mt. Whitney.
  • D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11what about Henry Hudson finding the Hudson Bay? I mean what are the odds of that...
  • beatoven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what about Junior Jack's "Stupidisco" and Dave Armstrong's "Make Your Move" huh?
  • graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1#16 Article appears on digg and results in Server Error in '/' Application.
  • chocolatey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Two words: Thomas Crapper.
  • crizpiz2, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Im mad I got an error message:

    Server Error in '/' Application.
    Stream does not support writing.
    Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

    Exception Details: System.NotSupportedException: Stream does not support writing.

    Source Error:

    Line 216: dim myAdapter as New MySqlDataAdapter()
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    Line 218: myAdapter.Fill(DS)
    Line 219: conn.close()
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    Source File: D:inetpub2secret_UCitems_code.inc Line: 218

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  • slayerab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"Oregon's Columbian newspaper announced the winning Pick 4 lottery numbers for June 28, 2000 in advance. The newspaper had intended to print the previous set of winning numbers but erroneously printed those for the state of Virginia, namely 6-8-5-5. In the next Oregon lottery, those same numbers were drawn."

    On the first anniversary of 9/11, the pick three lotto numbers for that night in NYC was 911...
    • RickG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Funny you mentioned that today.

      Today's (12/16/2006) NY Lottery number is (drum roll...) 911!
  • phenolholic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i often disregarded coincidences as ironic events or merely coincidences, but i've welcomed the idea that these are events in parallel universes that are clashing with mine.
  • dcpar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this site's down, with a nice .NET error page, listing the sql:

    "SELECT count(i.item) FROM items i " & ItemsJoin & " WHERE " & ItemsFilter

    Looks like they're leaving themselves wide open to a SQL injection attack.
  • bixing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0OMG, neither JFK or Lincoln RTFA!!!

    Coincidence? I think not!!
  • hidd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1life is a game, and were the product.
    the true beginning is yet 2 come
  • slayerab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In fact, the number for tonight in New York was again 911!
  • geislert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Recently I spent a week emailing my brother and I got into a huge bazaar argument that finally ended with me stating I would never talk to him again. I wasn't emailing my brother at all but a person who the same first and last name as by brother and who had a brother with the same name as I. I incorrectly spelled by his email address, using the short version of his first name instead of his proper first name (example Robert@robrichards.com versus robert@robertrichards.com). I don't have a common name either.
  • T3hl33tg33k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Also, one guy met his half sister during Thanksgiving and realized that he had seen her in porn. That must have been weird.
  • daGUY, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm in a band called FUNK 101, and we got together my freshman year of college in November 2003 (in New York). While searching our name online just to see what would come up, we found another band in Iowa named FUNK 101, that also formed in November 2003.
  • pantsbandit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hehe, a map society aka bad brain code terrorists have top 15 shadow coincidences. no *****.
    btw, when u say diaper and someone says u r retarded, say it (but not it) 10,000 more times so it'll be known to be retarded. see ya.
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