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Intriguing Coincidences and Luck Facts

Fact · 7 facts — swipe through each one · Jun 5, 1:57 AM

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Intriguing Coincidences and Luck Facts
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In 1974, a man named Alexander Gerbovich was saved by a man who previously saved him from drowning in 1956, despite the rescuer having moved to a different city.

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2

In 2002, a Finnish man won the lottery twice in a row, with the odds of this happening estimated at one in 25 billion.

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A meteor once crashed into a woman's home in Alabama in 1954, making her the only person confirmed to have been directly impacted by a meteorite.

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In 2010, two identical twin brothers in Finland died on the same day in separate accidents, just hours apart and by the same road.

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Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year Haley's Comet appeared, and he also died in 1910, the year the comet appeared again, which he predicted would happen.

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Lightning has struck the same place in Poland three times, despite the location being relatively small and not elevated.

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The lives of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third U.S. Presidents respectively, ended on the exact same day: July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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