🧵15 Incredible coincidences that seem impossible, but really happened.

🧵15 Incredible coincidences that seem impossible, but really happened.

1. The Simpsons vs. Trump In 2000, The Simpsons predicted that Donald Trump would become president of the United States. Although the most famous images come from a 2015 episode, the idea was raised much earlier.

2. Enzo Ferrari and Mesut Özil: reincarnation? Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari, died on August 14, 1988. Shortly after, on October 15, the footballer Mesut Özil was born...

...When comparing their photos, the similarity is striking. A great coincidence or proof of reincarnation? Up to you.

3. The surprising coincidences between Lincoln and Kennedy Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, two US presidents, share amazing similarities: - Both were shot in the back of the head on a Friday before a holiday (Kennedy before Thanksgiving and Lincoln before Easter). - They both had a friend named Billy Graham. - The two had four children. - His successors were vice presidents named Johnson.

4. Miss Unsinkable Violet Jessup, known as "Miss Unsinkable," could be seen as someone with incredible luck or as a bad omen. - He was on board HMS Olympic when it collided with HMS Hawke. - Survived the sinking of the HMHS Britannic after hitting a sea mine. - He was also on the RMS Titanic when it sank after hitting an iceberg. His incredible track record earned him this unique nickname.

5. The separated twins with almost identical lives Two twins from Ohio, separated at birth, lived surprisingly similar lives: - Both were named James when they were adopted. - They both became police officers and married women named Linda...

- Each had a son, one named James Allan and the other James Alan. - They both had a dog named Toy. After divorcing, both of them remarried women named Betty. An incredibly amazing coincidence.

6. Mark Twain predicted his own death The famous writer Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year Halley's Comet passed close to Earth. Twain predicted that he would die with its next pass:

"I arrived with Halley's Comet in 1835," he said in 1909. "He'll be back next year, and I hope to go out with him." Curiously, Twain died on the same day of his reappearance in 1910.

7. The Dutch cyclist who escaped two plane crashes Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge managed to avoid two major air disasters in his life: - I was originally booked for a seat on the defunct Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but changed to a flight that left an hour earlier. - He was also scheduled to fly on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine in 2014, but opted for another flight to save money. A double coincidence that saved his life.

8. Did Edgar Allan Poe have a time machine? In his book The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Edgar Allan Poe recounts how four sailors, after the sinking of their ship, are forced to eat a cabin boy named Richard Parker...

...Although Poe claimed the story was fictional, 46 years later something similar happened: a ship sank and the survivors, to stay alive, ate a cabin boy. The name of the unfortunate cabin boy? Exactly, Richard Parker.

9. A baby saved twice by the same man In the 1930s, in Detroit, Joseph Figlock was walking down the street when a baby fell from a high window directly onto him. The fall was cushioned, and both the baby and Figlock were unharmed...

10. A bullet that reached its destination years later In 1883, Henry Ziegland broke up with his girlfriend, who, devastated, committed suicide. Her brother, furious, shot Ziegland and then took his own life...

...Years later, Ziegland attempted to cut down that tree and, when he failed, he decided to use dynamite. The explosion propelled the bullet lodged in the tree straight into his head, killing him instantly.

11. Two brothers shot dead by the same taxi driver, one year apart In 1975, a man on a moped in Bermuda died after being accidentally hit by a taxi. A year later, his brother died in the same way, riding the same moped. Astonishingly, he was hit by the same taxi, driven by the same driver and carrying the same passenger.

12. The Tomb of Tamerlane In 1941, Soviet experts opened the tomb of Tamerlane, the 14th-century Turkish-Mongol conqueror. Inside they found a warning: "When I wake from death, the world will tremble... Whoever uncovers my tomb will release an invader more ferocious than I." Two days later, Hitler launched the invasion of the Soviet Union.

13. The man who predicted the sinking of the Titanic In 1898, 14 years before the Titanic disaster, the American writer Morgan Robertson published the novel Futility...

...In it, he described the sinking of a ship called Titan, with astonishing similarities to the Titanic: - Both were considered unsinkable. - Both had insufficient lifeboats. - Both collided with icebergs in the North Atlantic.

14. The license plate of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car The First World War began after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. The car he was traveling in had a license plate number A III 118...

...What's so strange about that? World War I officially ended on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918: 11/11/18