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The World's Most Incredible Coincidences
TLDR This episode explores some of the most mind-boggling coincidences in history, including Anthony Hopkins finding a signed copy of a book he was searching for on a London Underground bench, the burial of the first and last British soldiers killed in World War I next to each other, and Robert Todd Lincoln's uncanny proximity to three presidential assassinations.
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Learn about some of the world's most incredible coincidences on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
02:27
Learn about some of the world's most incredible coincidences, including Anthony Hopkins finding a signed copy of a book he was searching for on a bench in the London Underground, and the license plate of the car in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated being A111118.
04:44
During World War I, the first and last British soldiers killed in the war were buried next to each other, and a British passenger ship, the RMS Carmania, sank its twin ship, the SMS Cap Trafalgar, which had been disguised to look like the Carmania.
07:12
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, had several incredible coincidences happen to him, including being saved from a train accident by Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth, who would later assassinate his father, and being in the vicinity of three presidential assassinations.
09:19
Henri Trang was involved in five separate duels, but in four of them, his opponents died naturally before the duels took place, and in the fifth duel, his opponent died before the duel took place.
11:40
A man was killed in a moped accident by the same taxi that had previously killed his brother, with the same driver and passenger involved in both accidents.
13:55
While scuba diving at the annual underwater music festival in the Florida Keys, the host of the podcast bumped into the famous swimmer Diana Nyad, who was the grand marshal for the event that year.
