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Be Amazed

Bizarre Historical Coincidences

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all experienced some weird coincidences in our lives – from sharing a birthday with a friend to bumping into someone you know while on vacation. But I guarantee they’re nothing compared to many of the crazy coincidences that have happened throughout human history. So, get ready for your jaw to hit the floor as we investigate some of the most bizarre historical coincidences ever. 



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0:00.0

We've all experienced some weird coincidences in our lives,

0:04.1

from sharing a birthday with a friend to bumping into someone you know while on vacation.

0:08.9

But I guarantee there's nothing compared to many of the crazy coincidences that have happened throughout human history.

0:16.5

So get ready for your jaw to hit the floor as we investigate some of the most bizarre historical coincidences ever.

0:30.1

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed.

0:34.8

Sutomu Yamaguchi was on a pretty standard business trip in Hiroshima back on August 6, 1945.

0:42.6

But his day took an unexpected and almost deadly turn when out of nowhere the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.

0:53.1

Standing two miles from ground zero, the sky above Soutoumou erupted in a blaze of light,

0:59.7

and he leapt into a ditch to try and avoid the wave of intense heat that seared his body.

1:05.0

Miraculously, he survived, but in the immediate aftermath, some 80,000 people didn't.

1:11.6

Injured, burned, and desperate to see his family, Sotomo traveled home.

1:16.6

It took him three days, but he made it.

1:19.6

Despite being heavily burned in bandaged, he reported him to work on August 9.

1:24.6

His boss demanded to know what had happened, refusing to believe that a single

1:28.9

bomb could have obliterated an entire city.

1:31.7

Sautoma was about to explain everything when all of a sudden, the skyline outside exploded

1:37.1

in another blinding white flash.

1:40.3

Sutomo and his colleagues dropped to the ground as the office window shattered all around them.

1:45.0

In what might be the worst stroke of luck in history, his office was located in Nagasaki, the site of the second atomic bomb drop.

1:54.0

Once again, Sotom survived, immediately rushing from the building to check on his wife and son. Their house was nothing

2:02.5

but rubble. But in yet another strange twist of fate, they'd survived. His wife had been out buying

2:09.1

burn ointment for Sotomo, and when the bomb dropped, she and the baby managed to take refuge in a nearby

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