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One in a Million Coincidences - Part 6

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Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Serendipitous happenings take place all the time, but there are some that are really worth talking about. From mix-ups at birth to freaky fortune and a helping hand from lady luck, here are some more one-in-a-million coincidences that will make you think we live in a simulation!



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0:00.0

When was the last time you stopped and thought, well, how was one freaky coincidence?

0:05.0

The truth is that serendipitous happenings take place all the time, but there are some that are really worth talking about.

0:12.0

For mixed ups at birth, a freaky fortune, and a helping hand from Lady Luck,

0:16.4

here's some more one-and-a-million coincidences that'll make you think we live in a simulation.

0:24.1

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. Be amazed.

0:32.1

We've heard plenty of stories about unexpected reunions between long-lost siblings, but this tale of two sets of mixed-up

0:39.3

identical twins sounds straight from a telenovela. It all started in 2015 when a colleague of

0:45.5

Jorge Enrique Bernal Castro went to buy meet at William Canas Velasco's butcher shop

0:51.2

and Bogota. When she arrived, the woman couldn't believe how similar her colleague in the butcher looked,

0:56.2

so she snapped a photo and showed Jorge.

0:59.1

Dumbstruck Jorge and William met up, and sure enough, they shared the exact same features,

1:04.2

a slim face, narrow mouth, and cheeky smile.

1:07.5

Things got even weirder when the pair realized that their respective fraternal twins, Carlos Bernal Castro, and Wilbur Canas Velasco, also bore striking resemblance to one another, with wider faces, fuller lips, and more stern expressions.

1:22.1

The revelations didn't stop there. William and Jorge had been born on the 21st of December, 1988, in the Materno Infantil

1:29.4

Hospital in Bogota, and Wilbur and Carlos were born a day later in northern Santander province.

1:35.8

All four men were born prematurely at seven months, and when Carlos fell ill, he and Wilbur were taken to

1:41.2

the Materno Infantil Hospital. When both sets of twins were placed in the same room, they were mistakenly swapped around,

1:47.6

and their mothers were none the wiser.

1:50.0

Nowadays, the four men call themselves the brothers of Bogota,

1:53.1

and they still can't believe fate brought them back together so serendipitously.

1:58.2

They say twins share an inseparable bond,

2:00.5

and, in the strange case of two

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