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  1. February-19th-2013 06:12 PM #1
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    Default Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

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    I always love reading stuff like this and found this list particularly interesting. The one about the cab driver is really crazy.
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    It would be highly unlikely for such coincidences not to happen...

    Although i do not think that Adams and Jefferson making it to July 4th is a coincidence. Our nation is luckly to have had those kinds of men to stand up to the occasion.
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    Quote Originally Posted by alexey View Post
    It would be highly unlikely for such coincidences not to happen...

    Although i do not think that Adams and Jefferson making it to July 4th is a coincidence. Our nation is luckly to have had those kinds of men to stand up to the occasion.
    How is it likely for a baby to twice fall out of a window and land on the same guy? Seems rather unlikely to me
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    This one is my favorite.

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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    If I'm ever on a boat and meet a guy named Hugh Williams, I'm getting the **** off that boat ASAP.

    Also, never **** with a Mongol. Especially one related to Ghengis Khan.


    Cracked had an article like this one a little while ago, but only had 5-6 of these on here (including the Tamerlame one and the falling baby one). These kinds of things are always fascinating though.
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    Quote Originally Posted by Skins4Life6388 View Post
    How is it likely for a baby to twice fall out of a window and land on the same guy? Seems rather unlikely to me
    Yes I think it's ridiculously unlikely that any particular baby would fall on any particular guy twice. Now, chances of that happening somewhere to some baby, and some guy, at some point in time, are much higher.... and I'd say chances of people making a fuss of such an event are pretty close to 100%

    btw I'm curious whether this happened at the same time of day, whether same person was taking care of the baby, whether this guy walks by that window on the way to work every day, etc, which would have made this event more likely... not that it would have been impossible for it to happen without that.

    These are fascinating coincidences but please keep in mind that this is a classical case of our brains finding it fascinating when "1 in a billion" thing happens and not noticing when that "1 in a billion" thing does not happen all those other billion-1 times.
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    The one I found interesting was the one about the Twin Towers. I'm not even sure how there would be any way to even verify a lot of these. Btw, I stopped reading after 14.
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Sinister View Post
    The one I found interesting was the one about the Twin Towers. I'm not even sure how there would be any way to even verify a lot of these. Btw, I stopped reading after 14.
    Yeah, how do you forget to add two of the most prominent and iconic buildings in any skyline ever?
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    Quote Originally Posted by Skins4Life6388 View Post
    How is it likely for a baby to twice fall out of a window and land on the same guy? Seems rather unlikely to me
    Yeah I agree.
    Also I couldn't believe a lady from Coloroado found her own book in a bookstore in Paris.

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    And note to self: Never go boating with Violet Jessup.
    Especially since she's dead at this point, and so the only boating you're likely to do with her is across the river Styx.
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    Default Re: Cracked.com: 29 Mind-Blowing Coincidences You Won't Believe Happened

    Quote Originally Posted by RansomthePasserby View Post
    Yeah, how do you forget to add two of the most prominent and iconic buildings in any skyline ever?
    It wasn't necessarily that, but moreso the reasoning behind it, and the year that it happened.
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