Have you ever had your own share of strange events that made you go, “Woah! What are the odds!”
Or have you ever experienced some kind of twisted déjà vu? Sometimes, the universe works in weirdly
mysterious ways, making us wonder whether the Matrix is actually real! Get ready for
some serious existential crisis as we count down the 12 One in a Million Coincidences!
What’s up, fact-natics! This is Discovery Amuse, serving up your daily dose of the
most outrageous, outlandish, and out-of-this-world fun facts!
Our number one pick is so uncanny, you absolutely have to see it to believe it!
May the odds be ever in your favor!
#12: Slam Dunk!
These people tried to shoot some crazy hoops but just when they thought they made an absolute fool
of themselves, lady luck cheered from the sidelines and made the impossible happen!
In an attempt to impress his followers, this dude attempted to pull off a long-distance shot,
but his viral video took an unexpected turn!
Great assist, Mr. Railing!
Just when this kid thought his NBA dreams were over after his awkward basket…
I guess he’s meant for the big leagues after all!
In this basketball match, the two teams were neck and neck. The black team had
2 seconds left on the shot clock for a slim chance to win the game. The whites
acing their free throws wasn’t doing the blacks any favors either. But on a wing and a prayer,
this kid tried to sink a full-court buzzer beater!
If I were you, I’d keep watching ‘til number one. You never know, their luck might rub off on you!
#11: Third Time’s the Charm
The odds of winning the lottery is 1 in 290 million. And that’s not even the most
conservative estimate. You’re more likely to get struck by lightning that to strike
lottery gold. But not this obscenely lucky couple! Canadian couple Barbara and Douglas Fink won the
lottery not once, not twice… but three times! In 1989, Douglas shared a cash prize worth 128,000
Canadian dollars with four of his friends, and in 2010, the couple won 100,000 Canadian dollars!
Seven years later, Barbara did a Britney and said “Oops, I did it again!”
–when they became the other half of the two joint winners of Western Canada Lottery’s jackpot
worth 16.3 million dollars! Their total haul has amounted to a whopping 8 mil!
And in case you’re interested, the winning numbers were 9, 21, 25, 26, 31, and 41.
Honey, got some spare change?
#10: Vending Over Backwards This single photo shows a series of
unfortunate events! As you can see, the sandwich got stuck on its way out of the vending machine.
The guy tried to turn his luck around as shown in his caption.
But the universe has a nasty sense of humor. On the other end of the luck spectrum,
there’s this customer! Who not only managed to rescue their trapped beverage…
But score an extra soda too!
#9: Second Lease on Life
More than 6,500 pedestrian deaths have been recorded in the US in 2019. If that’s not
enough warning for you to take extra care and look both ways when crossing the street,
then this video might just do the trick.
In November of 2017, a dashcam
captured the near-death experience of this Chinese pedestrian in southern Chongqing.
Watch as the slippery road proved to be this girl’s guardian angel in disguise. (roll clip)
Honestly, who wouldn’t believe in miracles after seeing that!
#8. That’s a “lotto” luck!
While we’re in the subject of people lucky enough to get a second shot at life,
meet Bill Morgan, a truck driver from Australia whose lucky streak actually began--believe it
or not--after he got into a truck accident and suffered an almost fatal heart attack!
In 1998, after being declared clinically dead for 14 minutes, Morgan was revived at the hospital!
But then he fell into a coma, and after 12 days, just when his family was ready to pull the plug,
Morgan woke up! Pleased with his second chance at life,
Morgan wasted no time and proposed to his girlfriend and they got married.
But his cup of good fortune truly runneth over because in 1999,
he bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and won a car worth 17 grand! A local TV station
was impressed with his story and asked him to reenact the scratch card scene.
And that’s when the TV crew captured the exact moment Morgan won the lotto yet again!
Bill: I just won 250,000! I’m not joking.
I just won 250,000. Crew: Congratulation, Bill!
Hey mate! Why don’t we go for a drink some time? What do you say?
#7: The Magical Coat
In the 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz, actor Frank Morgan played the role of the great
and powerful Oz. But apart from that, he portrayed four other characters as well…
a cabby, a guard, a doorkeeper at the Wizard’s palace, and the fortune-telling Professor Marvel.
For his fortune-teller role, the costume department went looking for the perfect coat, so
they bought a whole rack from a second-hand store. One afternoon, when Morgan turned out the pocket
of the chosen coat, he saw the name L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz himself!
To confirm if it really did belong to the author, the production team got in touch with the tailor
and Baum’s widow, who both confirmed the authenticity of the coat!
Who knew the ruby slippers weren’t the only iconic memorabilia in this all-time classic!
#6: Right Place, Right Time
When the photographer snapped these photos of birds flying together across
the skies of Costa Brava in Spain, he didn’t immediately realize that he just captured
one of the most captivating pictures in the history of bird photography.
Heck, it’s birds flying in the shape of a bigger bird! How insane is that?
Photographer Daniel Biber took these jaw-dropping snaps of a flock of starlings in 2018.
The starlings were flying together, shape-shifting mid-air and producing
intricately coordinated patterns through the sky in a phenomenon called “murmuration”.
This happy accident earned him a prize
in an international photography competition and undoubtedly helped his career soar high!
#5: A Book’s Journey Home
You might consider this story either romantic or haunting, depending on how you look at it.
Back in the 1920s, American author Anne Parrish was in Paris with her husband,
industrialist Charles Corliss, when they checked out some local bookshops.
Parrish picked up a worn copy of the children’s book “Jack Frost and Other
Stories” and told her husband that she had an exact copy of this book when she was a kid.
Her husband opened the cover and discovered a childish scrawl inside, which wrote…
“Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs.”
It turned out to be the exact book she owned as a kid!
Parrish can’t remember how she lost possession of it and obviously,
she didn’t know it managed to travel thousands of miles! I guess this is
the final chapter to the story of a book that finally found its way home.
#4: Christmas with the Christmases
Christmas Eve of 2014 wasn’t the most wonderful time of the year for twins named
Lorraine and Lavinia, when on their way to deliver presents to each other,
they met a car accident at the same time in Flitcham, England!
And guess who their cars collided with? Each other!
And the cherry on top of the proverbial cake? The twins’ surname
is… Christmas! It’s almost the stuff of tongue-twisters!
The Christmases crashed their cars into each other on Christmas Eve. (repeat 2x)
#3: Cosmic Connection
American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more popularly known by his pen name Mark Twain,
was born on November 30, 1835, just two weeks after Halley’s comet appeared on the Earth’s
skies. The famous comet is known to pass by our planet’s vicinity about every 75 years.
In 1909, Twain kind of predicted his death when he famously said:
“I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year,
and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I
don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two
unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”
On April 20, 1910, the Halley’s comet appeared again, brighter than ever, and the following day,
April 21, 1910, Twain’s end had indeed cometh when he died of a heart attack.
#2: Something Space-ial
A French family went on holiday back in 2011 and returned home to see that a part of the roof was
leaking. They called a roofer who took a look at the broken tile, and told the family that
whoever destroyed it must have come from the sky and must have had “super” strength! A closer look
did confirm that the culprit came from the sky! But hold your horses, it wasn’t Superman… it was
apparently an 88-gram meteorite, estimated to be around four and a half BILLION years old!
Experts considered this an exceptional event,
especially since only 50 or so meteorites have fallen in France over the last 400 years!
But this isn’t even the most shocking part of this story.
The family’s surname… happens to be Comette! Seriously?! Of all the places on Earth,
this rock from outer space specifically chose the roof of the Comettes?
And for that, here comes another tongue twister!
A comet had cometh over the Comettes’ crib.
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#1: It’s a Small World After All!
Married couple Alex and Donna Voutsinas were absolutely born for each other,
but it took them a while to realize it. One week before the couple’s wedding,
they looked through childhood photos when one picture caught Alex’s eye!
It was Donna’s childhood photo from when she visited Disney World with her
family back in 1980. Alex immediately noticed his father in the background,
pushing a stroller. And guess who was in it! It’s none other than Alex himself!
The two lived in different areas at that time, Alex’s family was visiting from Montreal and
Donna’s family was visiting from Miami. And remarkably, the two ended up together,
not knowing that their paths have already crossed when they were kids!
Alex: To be in the same shot with my wife when we were basically like toddlers is unbelievable.
The two recreated the photo along with their own family, and this time… it was Alex’s turn to push
his son’s stroller. Ahh, they sure found their place on the path unwinding, right Sir Elton?
So, how about you, do you have your own one-in-a-million coincidence?
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