Coincidence Facts

In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day.

Twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.

A woman from Michigan named Barbara Soper gave birth on 10/10/10, 09/09/09 and 08/08/08 – the odds of which are 50 million to one.

The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.

Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.

In 2012, archaeologists dug up a parking lot in Leicester, England, and found the skeleton of King Richard III — lost for 527 years. He was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, the last English king to die in combat. His body was buried in a hasty, unmarked grave at Greyfriars friary. When the friary was demolished in 1538, the grave vanished. Centuries later, the site became a city council car park. An amateur historian named Philippa Langley convinced the University of Leicester to dig it up on a hunch. They found him in the first trench, six hours into a two-week excavation. DNA testing confirmed the identity with 99.999% accuracy. The skeleton showed 11 battle wounds — nine to the skull. The parking space above his grave was marked with the letter “R.”

A memorial tree was planted in Los Angeles' Griffith Park in honor of Beatles guitarist George Harrison. It was killed by an infestation of beetles.