Coincidence Facts

In 1965, four-year-old Roger Lausier was drowning at a beach in Salem, Massachusetts when a woman named Alice Blaise pulled him out of the water. Nine years later, Roger was on an inflatable raft when he heard a woman scream that her husband was drowning. He paddled out and kept the man afloat until help arrived. The man was Bob Blaise. Alice's husband. Same beach. Same family. Nine years apart.

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 and found the skeleton of King Richard III - lost for 527 years. An amateur historian convinced a university to dig on a hunch. They found him in the first trench, six hours into a two-week dig. 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.