"When I was in the early stages of dating my spouse, I brought her to my hometown to meet my parents. While looking at an old family photo album, she pointed to a picture and said “How do you know this man?”
I answered, “That’s my uncle” and she said, “No, he’s my uncle!” Turns out her mother’s sister married my mother’s brother."
"Living in America, I went on holiday to Mexico where I matched with a hot Mexican girl on Tinder from Cancun. We chatted but never met. I never unmatched her and neither did she.
A year later I noticed she was 2 miles away. She was a summer student in the same town in the UK where I relocated. I messaged her and…she still didn’t want to meet."
"I got into an argument with a douchebag at one bar. I said “You know what? I’m going to f@#k your sister!”We left and went to another bar. I hooked up with a girl. The next morning when I’m leaving her place, I run into the same douchebag. I f@#ked his sister."
"When I was around 12 or so my cousins and I were playing in the hayloft at the stables where my uncle kept his horses. I felt a pain in my leg and discovered it was a sewing needle I’d somehow rolled over on. Yup, I found a needle in a haystack."
"I dialed my mum on my mobile when I was on public transport. I accidentally swapped two numbers around. The person I called was sitting beside me on the bus."
"The odds of being born with 12 fingers or toes are 1 in 500,000."
"In the early 2000s, a couple (Alex and Donna) discovered a childhood photo of themselves at Disney World in 1980, in the background of which was Alex being pushed in a stroller by his father."
"The probability of a person having the same middle name as their spouse is 1 in 100."
"The likelihood of three people having the same birthdate is 1 in 1.4 million."
"The probability of two people having the same birthdate AND birthplace is also 1 in 1.4 million."
"The chances of a couple meeting at a party with 200 guests and having the same birthdate are 1 in 45."
"The chances of a couple having the same number of siblings are 1 in 6."
"Three of the first five U.S. presidents died on July 4, and two of those deaths were on the same July 4, within hours of each other."
"Major Walter Summerford was struck by lightning four different times, including after his death when lightning hit his gravestone."
"The first and last British soldiers to die in World War I, Private John Parr and George Edwin Ellison, are buried next to each other in St. Symphorien military cemetery in Belgium."
"In 1898, author Morgan Robertson wrote a novella called “Futility” about a supposedly “unsinkable” ocean liner called the Titan that sank after hitting an iceberg on an April night."
"A balloon let go in Staffordshire traveled 140 miles to a farm in Wiltshire, where a family with a daughter named Laura Buxton lived."
"Twin boys adopted by different families both named their sons James, both worked in security, both had dogs named Toy, both divorced wives named Linda and remarried women named Betty, and both met each other at age 39."
"A couple’s wedding photo has a stranger in the background who is identical to the bride’s deceased mother."
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Apparently it was released by a girl named Laura Buxton, who was looking for a pen pal.
189 years before
Were you friends before you knew that, or friends *because* of that?