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One in A Million Coincidences - Part 2

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Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

You don’t need to believe in fate to accept that some spooky happenings are so coincidental that they just can’t be explained. From impeccable timing to totally mind-blowing historic events, here are some one in a million coincidences you’ll have to hear to believe.




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0:00.0

You don't need to believe in faith to accept that some spooky happenings are so coincidental that they just can't be explained.

0:08.2

From impeccable timing to totally mind-blowing historic events, here's some more one in a million coincidences you'll have to hear to believe.

0:17.1

You're listening. You're listening.

0:21.4

You're listening to be amazed.

0:28.3

American writer Mark Twain will go down in history for more than just his life's work

0:34.1

after he successfully managed to predict his death and one seriously spooky coincidence.

0:40.2

Twain was born on November 30, 1835, shortly after the historic appearance of Haley's Comet,

0:47.0

which only passes by Earth every 75 years. In 1909, the writer famously declared that it will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Haley's comet.

1:00.4

The Almighty has said, no doubt. Now here are these two unaccountable freaks. They came in together.

1:06.4

They must go out together. The following year, Haley's Com had returned to Earth brighter than ever before, and sure

1:14.6

enough, Twain died of a heart attack a day after its arrival on April 21st, 1910.

1:21.5

Next up, Dennis the Menace is a well-loved cartoon character, and the blonde-haired dungaree-clad

1:27.0

chump and his dog rough have got

1:29.0

into all sorts of trouble over the years. Or would that be Dennis the spiky black-haired boy

1:35.7

and his signature striped shirt? You see, back in 1951, American cartoonist Hank Ketchum

1:42.2

devised the idea for Dennis the Menace,

1:44.7

based on his own son and the May Hamperown Dennis Mitchell,

1:48.0

first appeared in U.S. newspapers on March 12, 1951.

1:52.8

What Ketchum didn't know was that across the pond in the UK,

1:56.4

the renowned Beano comic strip was also debuting their latest cartoon,

2:01.7

the mischievous Dennis the Menace and his dog Nashor.

2:05.6

The characters appeared just days apart,

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