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Coincidences
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Two brothers died exactly 1 year apart riding the same moped down the same street and carrying the same passenger.
During the Second World War a rocket struck the British Museum and passed through a hole made by an earlier rocket. Both rockets luckily failed to explode.
The extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago may be due to the crash of a meteorite near the Gulf of Mexico.
Mark Twain was born in 1835, the year Halley’s comet appeared. He died in 1910, the year the comet reappeared.
Of the 8 presidents of the USA who have died in office, 7 were elected at precisely 20-year intervals.
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Book:
Horrible but True
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Section:
History
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Chapter:
Odd Events and Disaster
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