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One in a Million Coincidences - Part 9 · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every now and then the universe serves up some situations that seems so unlikely, so improbable, it's almost hard to believe they actually occurred.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about the kind of unbelievable coincidences that I'll make the most logical person start to believe in fate, so today we'll be checking out some wild glitches in the matrix as we explore some one and a million coincidences that'll blow your mind.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: When you get married and give your partner a wedding ring, the jewelry is meant to symbolize a bond of love and commitment that'll last a lifetime.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, people lose their wedding rings all the time, and they're supposedly everlasting symbolic bond, can be broken by something as simple as a trip to the beach.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2021, a woman called Susan Breyer found this out firsthand after discovering the lost wedding ring wrapped around the body of a small, milit-fish-well snorkeling off
• 1:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Susan was shocked by her discovery and as she snapped a photo of the fish and returned to the surface she recalled a Facebook post that she happened to have read earlier that year about a man who had lost his wedding ring in the area.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the post-local man Nathan Reeves explained that his ring had slipped on his finger while swimming there and sunk to the sea bed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nathan attempted to dive down and find the jewelry to know of Ale.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: turned out unfortunately for him the area is populated by Mulletfish.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: These little craters feed by pushing their bodies through the sea floor and eating any small crustaceans hiding in the sand.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: As one particular Mulletfish pushed through the sand to find its dinner, it inadvertently pulled off a jewel-hised as it seemingly swam into the ring and got trapped.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Stealing Nathan jewelry
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: When Susan Reeve found Nathan's original Facebook post, she messaged him about the rings whereabouts and she has since made several trips back to Norfolk Island to try and catch the ringed fish.
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, she's been on successful thus far and as far as she knows, Nathan's ring is still stuck around the moment leaving him with a naked finger in an eternal bond.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: with a fish.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Talk about a knot couple.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: They say you should never meet your heroes, but there are cases of people forming close relationships with their favorite celebrities after meeting them, or in one case becoming family members with their childhood idols.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: And not through marriage either.
• 2:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me explain.
• 2:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 1987, a girl called Jennifer was born without any legs, a sad affliction which very sadly prompted her birth parents to give her up her adoption.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jennifer's adoptive parents gave her a great upbringing and despite her disability, she developed a passion for gymnastics.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A love that was inspired by her favorite athlete, Dominique Mociano.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Dominique was a teenage prodigy who competed for Team USA at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and Jennifer used to watch Oliver events religiously, lining the walls of her bedroom with the gymnast posters.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Dominique even inspired Jennifer to compete in events against able body gymnasts and in 1998 Jennifer competed in the USA amateur athletic unions junior Olympics, placing fourth despite her disability.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When the loving family and a passion for gymnastics, Jennifer had a happy childhood, allowing her biological family to slip from her mind.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That was until 2003 when she was shown her adoption papers.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: As Jennifer started to skimp through the papers and read about her birth bear, she came across a familiar surname.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, Siyano, a little further digging, and Jennifer uncovered something unbelievable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Her hero was actually her long-lost older sister.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They'd been born to the same parents, but only the first born Dominique had been raised by them.
• 3:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like every good gymnast, Jennifer started to flip out before spending the next four years trying to pluck up the courage to contact Dominique and explain the situation.
• 3:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually, Jennifer wrote her idol a letter and incredibly Dominique immediately wrote back to her asking to meet up and have a conversation face to face.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Dominique and Jennifer immediately hit it off, noting similarities in their looks, mannerisms, and of course, their passion for gymnastics.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Since meeting in 2008, the long-law sisters have formed a close relationship in today, they regularly meet up spending time with each other's families.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What an inspiring story.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if I'm related to my childhood idol, being the Michelin-Man 2 look pretty similar.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, every father's comfy cup collection claims that they're the best dad in the world, but the similarities between dads go much further than that, with the average dad featuring the exact same blend of cargo shorts, receding hairlines and terrible ponds.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some dads are so similar in fact that they're virtually indistinguishable, and in 2022 a TikTokker called Andreas Holland proved it after discovering two identical dads while on vacation.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: As Andrea chilled in her hotel, she spotted a glitch in the Matrix spying two identical men, walking up a set of stairs.
• 5:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fellow's both spotted bald spots, shorts, and sweaty blue t-shirts, and were moving in sync with each other.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: If their kids accidentally run into their dad's double gang, they might end up going home with the wrong parent.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: And my experience all Seagulls are good for is stealing sandwiches and pooping on beach towels.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But it turns out they aren't all bad.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2018 a Seagull decided to make a mens for its species wrong doing by doing a human a big favor, saving them from a speeding ticket.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As the driver's sword passed a speed camera triggering it, the guardian goal came to his rescue flying in front of the camera and blocking the driver's license plate.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: The odds of the gold blocking the camera at the moment the photo was taken aren't incredibly small, but unbelievably, this isn't the first time a speeding driver's been saved by a bird.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Another driver was saved from a speeding find by a much smaller bird that flew by at the perfect time to cover up his plate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When the image was posted on the red at the critter was identified as an Indian lineup from Australia and Reditors praised the Airborne Aussie for preventing the driver from receiving a fine.
• 6:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: With war and politics constantly at the forefront of the news, it's easy to feel like humankind is completely divided.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, there is one thing that can unite almost everyone on Earth, a deep hatred for mosquitoes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Skaters are arguably humankind's archenemy and unsurprisingly, some members of the animal kingdom aren't so keen on them either.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: This shared hatred acts as a real bond between man and beast, and in 2018 the connection came to a Redditor's advantage after a dragonfly landed on his hand and ate a mosquito that was just about to bite him.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: The way that the Redditor's buzzing bunnyguard ate the mosquito before it had a chance to hurt his client required some incredibly coincidental timing, and the next time the summer months roll around you can forget about nuts and insects break, just by yourself a pet dragonfly.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's their eye color or favorite sports team, children can inherit lots of different characteristics from their parents.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Spotting your traits in your child must be a pretty wholesome experience, but unfortunately, passing an attribute to your kid is in no way a good thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Especially if that trait is a tendency to fall, helplessly into large bodies of water.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1988, a man called Zhuo Wei Feng heard a come-motion from the river beside his house in Xiangxu China.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: He ran outside and found a child on the brink of drowning in the river, prompting him to dive into the water and save the kid's life, before sending him home to his parents.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For most of us, this would be enough heroism for a lifetime, but Jews' work wasn't done.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: 30 years later, in 2018 and now 80-year-old shoot, experienced a terrifying case of deja vu, after heading into his garden and discovering
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Despite his now-advanced years, you managed to save the kid dragging him out of the water before calling an ambulance.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The next day, you decided to visit the kid in hospital to make sure he was okay and when he arrived and asked for the child's name, he made an insane discovery.
• 8:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: The 8-year-old was the son of the boy whose life he saved 30 years earlier.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: It turns out, brave yet somewhat unskilled swimming runs in the boy's family, and shoes heroism had saved two generations from the same fate.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess the apple really doesn't foe far from the tree.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just a shame those apples keep falling in juice river.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Saving two kids from drowning takes an incredible amount of bravery, but juu isn't the only hero out there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And for a pediatrician like Dr. Michael Shannon from Orange County, California, saving a life is all part of the job.
• 8:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Heading to work and treating sick kids sounds like an incredibly rewarding profession, but for Dr. Shannon, saving children's lives has provided even richer rewards and fulfillment at work.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: After one of his former patients grew up to repay the favor.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me explain.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In 1981, Dr. Shannon saved the life of a 3.2 pound premature baby caught Chris Trokey, working around the clock to stabilize the child and ensure he survived a chaotic bird.
• 9:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: For Dr. Shannon, this was just another day in the office and he soon forgot about Chris, until they met again 30 years later.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2011, Dr. Shannon was cruising down the highway when he was involved in a serious car accident.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shannon's chances of survival look slim but luckily the emergency services soon arrived, and a paramedic was able to cut the doctor out of the car and drag him to safety.
• 9:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Shannon's man over a month recuperating in the hospital and during his stay the paramedic who saved him came to visit introducing himself as none other than Chris Trokey.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: The baby that Shannon had delivered 30 years earlier.
• 9:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: The paramedic had discovered that the man he'd saved was Dr. Shannon soon after the accident and it seemed Chris's grateful parents had made sure their son never forgot the name of the man who'd given Chris a shot of life.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Both Chris and Dr. Shannon weren't shocked as they realized that Chris had finally repaid a 30-year-old favor by rescuing the man that saved his own life.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: After bonding over their shared heroism, Chris and Shannon struck up a friendship and today, Dr. Shannon continues working as a pediatrician, even for Chris' own newborn son.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if that kid will grow up to save Dr. Shannon's life in some way too.
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: From pigeon people to scuba diving security guards when you open Google Maps and head down to Street View, you'd never know which you'll find on the world's roadside walks.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: In 2020, American Twitch streamer SimCouper discovered that firsthand after finding something unbelievable on Google Maps.
• 10:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: He found his double-ganger.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: SimCouper streams lots of different games on Twitch and back in 2020, he was playing GeoGesser, a popular game that places you in a random part of the world on Street View, before asking you to use your surroundings to figure out where you are.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: As SimCouper was dropped onto a busy street in a random city, started looking for road signs
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, he immediately stumbled upon his doppelganger, crossing a road sporting similar clothes and facial hair to Simcopter's own.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Simcopter was shocked by the discovery and when he made his location guess and pulled up the world map the game revealed that his look-alike lives in a town in the Dominican Republic.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Considering Geogessor can place you down anywhere on the planet, the chances of stumbling across your look like her incredibly small, but alone look like wearing the same outfit as you on a particular day, making SimCountre's discovery a pretty unbelievable coincidence.
• 11:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: To think most liberal arts students travel all the way to Southeast Asia to find themselves, how SimCountre has to do his catch a flight to the Caribbean.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you ask a kid what they want to be when they grew up, they'll usually tell you that they aspire to become something like an astronaut, a doctor, or a famous athlete, but unfortunately some kids career paths are seemingly already predetermined by their names of all things.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And 1994, a journalist for new scientist magazine came up with a concept called nominative determinism.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards jobs that relate to their names.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Take the neurologist, Lord Russell Brain, or the world's fastest man, you've seen bold.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or how about a fireman called Lt. Liz McBernie, and a chef called Tom Kitchett.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There are also examples of anti-nominated determinism when people end up working in jobs that directly contradict their names.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For example, Philadelphia's Commissioner of Police, Daniel Outlaw.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: or a famous art bishop in the Philippines cardinal sin.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Since the term was coined in 1994, researchers have found countless examples of the phenomenon while questioning whether the effect is a case of coincidence, or subconscious decision-making.
• 12:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: The former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Igor Judge, has stated he thinks the link between his name and his profession is completely coincidental.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And contrast to New York lawyer, called sue you, remembers people jokingly telling
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: She never dreamt of going into law as a kid, and she believes that a lifetime of comments about her name could have eventually pushed her to pursue a career as a lawyer.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: What those conflicting accounts it's still impossible to say, whether nominative determinism is a case of causation or coincidence, but when you hear about a professional poker player called Chris Moneymaker, a real estate agent called Cory Greedhouse, and of a sanctamy specialist called Dr. Dickchap, it feels like some people are truly born to work in their chosen
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every superhero needs a villain in the world of comic books, there's no rivalry bigger than the one between Marvel and DC.
• 13:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: The publishers have fought for the superhero top spots since the 1930s, but coincidentally, both companies have incredibly similar origins, and some of their biggest superheroes have their roots in the same New York High School.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: DeWitt Clinton High School in New York boasts a long list of notable alumni, including Marvel's late creative leader Stanley, and the co-creators of Batman, Bill Finger, and Bob Kane.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Finger and Kane both graduated in the class of 1933 while Stanley graduated in 1939.
• 14:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Giving to Witt's art department a decade with some of the most influential comic book artists of all time, this coincidence is pretty insane.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, the Witt was a giant school, with some individual graduating classes in the mid-20th century holding up to a mind-boggling 900 students, and as many as 12,000 total students in the 1930s.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: With that number of students, it makes sense that there'd be several success stories.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, it's still pretty crazy that some of the most crucial individuals behind the development of two of the world's most popular heroes.
• 14:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Batman and Spider-Man went to school together.
• 14:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Anyone want to sign my petition to make superhero costumes that compulsory uniform for students had to wait for, and
• 14:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's all the crazy coincidences we've got time for today.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever encountered any strange hilarious or downright unbelievable coincidences of your own?
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let me know in the comments below and thanks for watching!