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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We’re surrounded by coincidences every day but some stories defy all the odds. Let's explore some wacky happenings in this episode of one-in-a-million coincidences!
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0:00.0 | We're surrounded by coincidences every day. |
0:03.0 | Have you ever bumped into your real-life doppelganger in a different city, for example? |
0:07.2 | Stick around to find out about some wacky happenings in this episode of one in a million coincidences. |
0:15.0 | You're listening. |
0:17.0 | You're listening to be amazed. |
0:27.1 | Your high school history teacher probably taught you that the assassination of Archduke France Ferdinand was the event that kick started the First World |
0:31.7 | War but what most people don't know is that the whole thing might not have happened if it |
0:36.4 | wasn't for a humble sandwich. |
0:38.3 | As the story goes, the assassins failed in their first attempt to kill the Archduke after their grenade hit the car behind him and he spent away unharmed. |
0:47.3 | Understandably, his would-be killers were pretty peeved about this. One of the men, Gavrillo Prensip, was so hangary that he stopped to grab a |
0:56.4 | sandwich at a nearby cafe. While Ferdinand was counting his lucky stars to have survived the attack, |
1:02.3 | his driver, who was blissfully unaware that the pre-planned route had been changed, took a wrong |
1:07.3 | turn, passing right by the cafe where the assassin had stopped for launch. |
1:12.4 | Seizing the opportunity not to mess up a second time, Prince had shot the Archduke and his wife |
1:17.5 | from five feet away, and the rest, as they say, is history. When it started to look like World War |
1:23.3 | 1 was going to get pretty gnarly, the German army decided to convert a cruise liner named the |
1:28.4 | SMS cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser. To protect their shiny new battleship from |
1:35.0 | potential damage, they agreed upon a rather sneaky tactic. They disguised the Trafalgar as the British |
1:41.4 | liner RMS Carmania. Unfortunately for them, the Trafalgar was the British liner RMS Carmania. |
1:50.0 | Unfortunately for them, the Trafalgar was attacked and sunk off the coast of Brazil in 1914 and its attacker was none other than the real RMS Carmania, which had also recently been |
1:56.5 | converted into an armed merchant cruiser. As if that wasn't bizarre enough, it turns out the Germans |
2:02.3 | weren't alone in their scheming, because the Brits had also disguised the RMS Carmania to look |
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