20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)

Imagine picking the winning numbers for two separate lotteries at the same.
20 Completely Impossible Coincidences (That Really Happened)

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.

The Lottery

IMAGINE PICKING THE CORRECT NUMBERS FOR TWWO LOTTERLES AT THE SAME TTIME! S46LI01 08 AER hR o Well, in 1980, IT HAPPENED to a woman named Maureen Wilc
GRACKEDCOM In 1817, Mary Ashford was murdered while she was returning from a dance during Whit Monday. The crime happened in Erdington, Birmingham. Sh
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
CRACGKED Twins Separated At Birth Lead Exact Same Life Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth when they were adopted in 1940, and met for
I n 1816 Orleans, Emile Deschamp made the acquaintance of M. de Fontgibu, and together they enjoyed a plum pudding, a dish newly introduced from Engla
On August 17 1957, Alice Roth and her two grandsons were watching the Philadelphia Phillies play New York when a foul by Richie Ashburn hit her in P t
BGU407240059 O Anticipating the start of the second World War, the Val-Benoit Bridge in Liege, Belgium was laid with mines. On 31st August, 1939, as a
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
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
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
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
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
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

Unbelievable Statistics

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.

Disasters

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
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
4ATIS To claim authority over his Back at the university the astronomicall discoveries, astronomicall anagrams Galileo sent his discoveries were given

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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

Golf

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
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

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