6 Unbelievable Coincidences That Actually Happened (6 pics)

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Coincidence can be a strange and confusing thing but some of these coincidences are downright scary.

On June 20, 1940, Soviet archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Tamerlane, a descendant of Genghis Khan. A warning inscription read "Whoever opens my tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I." They opened it anyway. Germany invaded the Soviet Union two days later.



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Edgar Allen Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, tells of an ill-fated Antarctic voyage. In one scene, four shipwrecked survivors, adrift on a raft, decide to eat the cabin boy, Richard Parker, to survive. In 1884, a ship called the Mignonette sank, leaving four survivors. They, too, decided to cannibalize the cabin boy to survive. The cabin boy's name? Richard Parker.



6 6 Unbelievable Coincidences That Actually Happened (6 pics)


№1 Author: Aindy (17 Apr 2015 06:05) Total user comments: 2863


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'Facts' are so unreliable on AC lately that you are better off not believing any of them....
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№2 Author: Capish (17 Apr 2015 08:20) Total user comments: 0


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"Soviet archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Tamerlane"

You mean that tomb that no one know where it is?
Yay, that's definately a fact!
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№3 Author: Nick1090 (17 Apr 2015 09:22) Total user comments: 1257


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I'm sure if the Russians hadn't opened a tomb, the Germans wouldn't have invaded.
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№4 Author: Egbert (17 Apr 2015 10:15) Total user comments: 393


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Germans did not invade Russia. Germans were taking defensive precautions. Russians invaded the neutral territory in Poland to encroach upon Germans.
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№5 Author: Cotzy (17 Apr 2015 10:38) Total user comments: 442


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Egbert,
you suck a lot. :88:
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№6 Author: Aindy (17 Apr 2015 10:40) Total user comments: 2863


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Egbert,
Neutral territory? Germany and russia invaded poland at the same time. They had a temporary alliance, which is the reason the Allies declared war on germany.
However, russias politics were the polar opposite of germanys, which is why war with them was inevitable.
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№7 Author: Tomaz86 (17 Apr 2015 16:20) Total user comments: 10834


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I like this.
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№8 Author: LewisJones (17 Apr 2015 17:08) Total user comments: 2206


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true or not, still a :38: pretty fun read!
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№9 Author: joffenbaker (18 Apr 2015 04:34) Total user comments: 4968


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Mmmmmm.....Cabin Boy...
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№10 Author: Axel666 (18 Apr 2015 09:45) Total user comments: 0


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Germany invaded USSR in 1941.
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