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One in A Million Coincidences - Part 4

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Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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When coincidence strikes, there will always be those who believe fate is responsible and sceptics who try to use reason to find a logical explanation. Life is packed full of serendipitous happenings but coming up are some coincidences which are sure to leave you lost for words!



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When coincidence strikes, there will always be those who believe fate is responsible and skeptics who try to use reason to find a logical explanation.

0:10.0

Life is packed full of serendipitous happenings, but coming up are some coincidences that are sure to leave you lost for words.

0:19.8

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

0:29.9

Back in 1973, Hollywood actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear

0:33.0

in a screen adaptation of George Fyfer's novel,

0:35.9

The Girl from Petrovka.

0:38.3

To prepare for the role, Hopkins realized that he should probably read the book first,

0:42.9

but he couldn't find a copy no matter how hard he searched.

0:46.3

That is until one day when a heavily annotated copy suddenly turned up on a bench in a subway

0:51.5

waiting room.

0:52.7

When Hopkins eventually met Fyfer two years later,

0:55.5

he retold the story of his unexpected fine only to discover, it was far luckier than he ever

1:01.0

could have guessed. Fyfer explained that he didn't own a copy of the book himself because he'd lent

1:06.1

it to a friend who lost it while riding the subway. Hopkins then produced the book, and to his surprise, Fyfer identified it as his original copy by

1:15.3

recognizing his handwriting. There's no word whether Hopkins returned the book to its

1:20.1

rightful owner, though. Now here's a Titanic prediction. An 1898 U.S. writer Morgan Robertson

1:27.1

published a novella named Puteleity.

1:29.3

But it wasn't until over a decade later that it started gaining some unexpected attention.

1:35.3

The novel details a shipwreck, which occurs after a ship of record size, collides with an iceberg in the North Atlantic,

1:42.3

and the name of that ship just so happens to be the Titan.

1:46.9

Sound familiar?

1:48.7

That's right, Robertson pretty much predicted the most famous shipwreck in history 14 years before the Titanic liner sank near Newfoundland,

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