20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)
Imagine picking the winning numbers for two separate lotteries at the same.
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A lot of things in life are improbable: Being hit by two separate foul balls in the same baseball game, surviving two atomic blasts on the same day, having the same exact life as a fictional character, successfully navigating an asteroid field without being smashed to pieces.
Oh wait, no -- none of those things are improbable at all. And, after reading the following stories, we think there's really something to all those super-excited self-help gurus that are always claiming nothing's impossible.
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![Tsutomu Yamaguchi... On August 6, 1945 he was on a business trip in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb detonated less than 3 Kilometers away. He survived](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/3/0/516430.jpg?v=1)
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![In 2007, a newspaper of Suffolk, England, ran this photo of Michael Dick and two of his daughters. Mr. Dick had come to Sudbury all the way from Londo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/2/0/516420.jpg?v=1)
![As infants, Diane DiProspero Cook and Karen Cometa-Zempel were adopted into separate families and lived separate lives a mere 20 miles away from each](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/6/516406.jpg?v=1)
![CRACKEDCO In 2014, Briton Nick Wheeler and his fiancee, Aim ee Maiden, were looking at some old family photos at his grandparents' place. They came ac](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/0/2/516402.jpg?v=1)
![SACAGAWEA BECAME A HIDATSA INTERPRETER FOR LEWIS AND CLARK IN THEIR EXPEDITION. THEY WERE TRYING TO PROCURE HORSES TO CROSS THE ROCKIES FROM A SHOSHON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/0/516390.jpg?v=1)
![The Crystal Palace London An exhibition center built out of glass and ...destroyed by cast iron in 1851... fire in 1936 The Crystal Palace Munich An e](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/2/516392.jpg?v=1)
![Radivoke Lajic a 50 year old Bosnian has had his property hit by meteorites not once, not twice. but siX friggin times. Al 6 objeets have been confirm](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/9/8/516398.jpg?v=1)
![ISN'T IT WONDERFUL THAT THE SUN'S DIAMETER IS 400 TIMES LARGER THAN THE MOON'S, AND IS 400 TIMES FARTHER FROM EARTH? THAT WAY, WHEN VIEWED FROM EARTH.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/2/516382.jpg?v=1)
![SISTERS DIED IN A CAR CRASH Sheila Wentworth and Doris Jean Hall decided to visit each other on the same day at the same timeo Their identical Jeep Ch](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/8/0/516380.jpg?v=1)
![From 1977 to 1979, the Montreal Juniors hockey team featured Les Trois Denis players named Denis Savard, Denis Tremblay and Denis Cyr. They grew up](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/7/6/516376.jpg?v=1)
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![In 1970, Philip K. Dick wrote a book titled Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. He later met a woman who not only had the same name as a character in](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/6/516366.jpg?v=1)
![On March 3, 2016, a crowd congregated to watch the inaugural round of golf at the new Tiger Woods designed course The Playgrounds at the Bluejack Na](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/1/0/516410.jpg?v=1)
![Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address written on it in hopes of getting a pen pal, and the balloon ended up in the hands of anothe](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/3/6/0/516360.jpg?v=1)