Monday, December 18, 2006

Top 15 strangest coincidences

Here are a few from the list:

  • 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.
  • In 1899 a bolt of lightning killed a man as he stood in his backyard in Taranto, Italy.
    Thirty years later his son was killed in the same way and in the same place.
    On October 8, 1949, Rolla Primarda, the grandson of the first victim and the son of the second, became the third.
  • 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. He himself predicted this in 1909, when he said: "I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it."
  • Top 15 strangest coincidences

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