14 Eyebrow-Arching Historic Coincidences

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14 Eyebrow-Arching Historic Coincidences

There's some historic coincidences that can be explained, like Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray applying for patents on a telephone only hours apart from each ... probably because the other one was tipped off. But to hear some truly unexplainable coincidences, read on below.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. He was on a business trip in Hiroshima, then returned home before the second bomb
Source: NBC

In March 195l, both the American and British Dennis the Menace comics premiered, coincidentally. There is no way either creator could have known what
Source: BBC

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