"Of course, coincidences happen all the time" says it all really. Also, we have evolved to see patterns in everything. If you look hard enough you can usually find it.
I gotta say, I applaud ***** for calling these coincidences....well, coincidences. So, so many people would instead claim "TOP TEN STRANGE PREDICTIONS THAT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE" or some nonsense like that. Coincidences are bound to happen, and I like people who leave them as that without getting into pseudo science.
nortan27 I truly do like it when people use their heads when it comes to the world. There's so much pseudo science bunk on the internet that's nothing more than clickbait for idiots. A lot of respect for ***** for being above that kind of nonsense.
iTzYoMaster Such a thing coinciding with with another is not so amazing. The word 'coincidence' literally describes occurrences that coincide. Meeting the same person on the train every morning is a coincidence.... sharing the same name, age and distant german great great uncle is when it becomes interesting. Incidents of Synchronicity better describe these examples
'Juno' was also the name of a Normandy beach on D-Day. It was the sector that fell to the Canadian Army. My Uncle, a Sergeant in the Calgary Highlanders Regiment fought on it.
To be fair to the number 9 spot, every president elected in a year ending in 0 since William Henry Harrison in 1840 died in office, until Reagan elected 1980 broke curse by surviving an assassination curse.
Hickleys brother had dined with Neil Bush (the son of Reagan's Veep) a few nights before the shooting. This was mentioned ONCE on live TV the day of the attempt by John Chancellor and never repeated.
I think his last name is spelled Hinkley. I've heard a similar story a few times,but what I heard was George H.W.Bush himself(who was President Reagan's v.p.-against Reagan's wishes I might add,&Bush had been in high levels of the cia for years at this point)who met with John Hinkley Sr. within a week to 10 days prior to the assassination attempt against President Reagan, at a restaurant where they had a long&serious discussion. John Hinkley Sr. is/was John Hinkley Jr.'s dad,&it is well known that the Bush family and Hinkley family were close family friends as well as both families being very wealthy. Most believe the hit on President Reagan was sponsored by none other than George H.W.Bush himself. President Reagan was pushing to have some things done that Bush and his cronies did not want touched or even talked about,&Bush was heavily into the Deep State and the New World Order who wanted a puppet in the Oval Office to do things the way they wanted them done,&Bush was their man! Ronald Reagan had refused to allow Bush on his ticket at first when he was running for President because he knew too much about Bush and knew what kind of guy Bush truly was,&Reagan wanted to have no part in any of Bush's dirty dealings. As I mentioned previously,Bush was deep into the cia for quite a long time before he was ever placed on Reagan's ticket as his running mate. The Republican Party told Reagan that they would only support him for President if Bush was his v.p. If you have any interest,you can find all these details online without too much effort.
Bishop Howells Not enough. Let's go further make more than ten of those (I know they'll cancel out the concepts of eachother, but whatever) and pit those videos against eachother in a top tenz list of top ten lists of top ten lists.
Bishop Howells Okay, but only videos by all channels that make top 10 lists are considered for this top ten of top tens video: Alltime 10s, BuzzFeed, DangerDolan, List25, etc., etc...
still more of Lincoln-Kennedy I never heard of Thorton did it for me lol ...for those who live in the twilight zone Oswald was not a coincidence - it doesn't even seem like one What it seems is completely suspicious
how abou tht shipwreck whose only 4 survivors had eaten a man named richard parker the coincidence is that there was a novel by Edgar Allan Poe published years before by that tells the same story where 4 men would eat their partner to survive a shipwreck also and tht man was named richard parker in the novel
Regarding #4, I heard that Adams and Jefferson actually became close friends and kept regular correspondence until shortly before their deaths. Adams' final words were something to the effect of "At least Jefferson is still alive." He'd had no way of knowing that Jefferson had actually died just a few hours prior.
The weirdest coincidence in history is that when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the first Indian they encountered knew how to speak English. True story. He had been acquainted with the English settlers in Virginia and was travelling through Massachusetts when the Pilgrims landed. Makes you think of those Flash Gordon movies where earthmen land on another planet and the natives of that planet speak the earthmen's language. Hey, it could happen!
Hey you should watch the movie the Adams Family, the part when Wednesday was in a Thanksgiving play & told the true stories about the pilgrims & natives
I am sick of the word sniper being used incorrectly. Lee Harvey Oswald was not a Marine sniper. He was a rifleman, who shooting skills earned him the badge of sharpshooter, which is second from the best which is expert. U.S. Marines no matter what their jobs are are taught from day one they are rifleman first and what ever M.O.S. skill set they are trained in second. As a U.S. Army sniper in the mid 1990s I was formally trained in stalking and bidding, and yes shooting. However my shooting skills were already present, as I had qualified as an expert in both pistol and rifle shooting for over 6 years before being accepted into sniper school. It seems now that any idiot who picks up a scoped rifle and kills someone at over 50 yards is labeled a Sniper. By that standard my son who shoots competition air rifle at 75 yards with a scope would be labeled a sniper, which is bull sheet. The art of a sniper is mainly one of being able to set up a good bidding place to shoot from then make the shot as undetectable as possible, then making a successful egress out of the danger zone. For every mission I shot on, I did 50 intel. Hides gathering information.
His designation wa later lowered from Sharpshooter to Marksman when he tested lower on subsequent tests. He was far from a sniper which just goes to show how poorly researched these types of lists are.
The crossword 'coincidence' occurred because the schoolteacher who set the puzzles for The Times was making his pupils write them as a detention punishment. The offending crossword was compiled by a boy who had been hanging around an American base and had heard the words, although he did not understand the significance at the time.
Actually, the one with Franz Ferdinand's assassination is a bit wrong. The story is true, and it did spark World War 1. However, even if Franz Ferdinand weren't a victim of assassination, the chances are WW1 would have kicked off regardless. Everyone was just waiting for an excuse to go to war.
On number 2: writers have a knack of pointing out flaws in the system and have often seemingly predicted events... like the mentioned Tom Clancy who wrote about a B747 being flown into the Capitol Building and then some time later 9/11 happened.
So, what I get out of this is that...WWI could have been prevented if the driver had made the right turn. This means that Germany may never have been put into debt, meaning that WWII would never have happened, which means that the Holocaust could have been prevented...if the driver had made the right turn (also, if the assassin had not killed the Archduke). Moral of the story? Know where you're going. You just might prevent the next world war :)
At the time Europe was a powder keg waiting to blow up. There was so much tension that the war would've happened even if the archduke hadn't been shot. Something else would've happened to set it all off, that's all.
Aiden Fielding But the Soviet Union only came into existance due to WWI. But Myriad is right anyway, at the time any excuse was welcome for the Leaders of Europe to start a war.
rochestas Yes, but: WWI was bound to happen, the assassination was just the spark that set the bomb on fire. If the driver took the correct turn, the war might have started a few months later.
I found out just the other day that the formal address for the world headquarters of Facebook, is "1 Hacker Way." To which I can only add, how is this not the only thing that anyone is talking about, anywhere, ever, all the time?
The Lincoln Kennedy details was indeed astonishing and quite spooky. The Titan and Titanic was also astonishing. Looking into possible disasters that could occur in the atlantic ship crossing, he thought of one of the l likely ones and it did happen as written. Even reading the novel would have done no good for the unsinkable ship.
From Snopes: Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to Ford's Theatre. Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas. This is one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence at all; it's simply wrong. John Kennedy did have a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (who may or may not have warned him about going to Dallas), but one searches in vain to find a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy. (Lincoln's White House secretaries were John G. Nicolay and John Hay.) Read more at www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp#5XhJ6AlydC10aAOi.99
OK so you only read the first lines the rest goes on to explain that NO he didn't when you see the blue words that say "read more" your should really click that before you comment.
@@ryanwinkelman1781 Snopes is just that it has proven itself to be: interested in facts for the sake of facts. Conspiracy is not nearly as common as some imagine.
The Adams / Jefferson story actually goes a little deeper. After the feuding between the two political rivals left them on non-speaking terms, mutual friend and signer of the DOI, Benjamin Rush had a dream that the two of them would begin to write letters back and forth and restore their relationship. Additionally he dreamed that they would die around the same time. He told his dream to Adams and urged him to write to Jefferson. Through a series of letters, they indeed eventually restored their relationship. On his death bed, Adams said, "at least Jefferson still lives," not knowing that he died just hours before.
Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT a sniper in the marines, but a radar operator who barely passed his general marksmanship requirements. Oswald's job at the Texas Schoolbook Depository was procured for him by Bob and Ruth Paine less than 2 months before the assassination, and there's mounting evidence that the Paines were Oswald's CIA handlers. It was also in the home of the Paines that the police "found" the highly dubious photos of Oswald holding both murder weapons from his alleged crimes that day. Not much of a coincidence.
Green Goblin was also going to attack the World Trade Center in the Spider-Man movie but when it happened before they completed movie they changed him to attacking a different building.
Well, having just caught this Top-Ten site of similarly-themed Top-Ten content for the first time you've got to ask why this site deserves to be singled out over the various, varied alternative Top Ten sites peddling six of one half a dozen of another? Listening to this Top-Tenz (that distinguishes itself from the other run-of-the-mill sites by ending with a "z")(and not because they put you to sleep) is the distinguishing, distinguished British accent that gives anything instant integrity and class as opposed to the other run of the mill sites that sound as pedestrian as their content. Another perspective is the manner in which the content is presented and expressed, more cerebral,. intellectual and profound than others I've sampled. So, I will be keeping up to date with Top-TenZ and their latest offerings by subscription.
#4 - what most people don't know, is that the Vice Presidency used to be given to the runner up of the Presidential election. This practice was stopped however as this meant the President's right hand was usually a bitter rival which doesn't bode well for an efficiently functioning government and as the Vice President is the 1st in the line of succession, having a rival in such a position is potentially quite hazardous to the President's health.
I was always obsessively fascinated by the Titanic disaster as a child always asking for books relating to the subject.It sank on April 15th 1912.On April 15th 1989 the football team I support,Nottingham Forest, faced Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough Stadium Sheffield.The match was abandoned when mis-management at the Liverpool end resulted in the death of 96 supporters (JFT96!).My mother died on April 8th 1997,the funeral was set for April 15th.This was also the birthday of the women I was with at the time.On the way to the crematorium someone had coincidentally put up a banner saying "Happy 30th!" (it was her 30th birthday).I gotta say,I`m REALLY not a fan of April 15th!
The makers of the Titanic didn't install enough life boats because it was supposed to be unsinkable. Who'd have thought that the world's first unsinkable ship would sink on its maiden voyage?!
That may be true, but it was certainly thought of as one of the safest ships in the world, with complex watertight doors and pressurised rooms to avoid sinking.
Alex Papangelou Actually Alex, neither of those were new on the Titanic. In fact it wasn't even the first of it's "Olympic" class for the White Star Line, this was RMS Olympic.
Robert Leather Yes and a lot of the things about the novels describing/"predicting the Titanic were (supposedly) edited after the event to be more similar. The editor obvious saw some minor similarities and decided to reprint it while making it more inline with the actual events. Since the first print of the novel did poorly, there are few surviving copies and the second revised print (which did very well) has significantly more copies floating around, and the legend was born.
Well here's the math put into simple words. You winning the lottery may be something special because of the tiny chance. But just anybody winning the lottery is less special because the chances are quite good that somebody is going to get the right numbers. It's the same with those events. The chance that it happens to you is tiny. But the chance that it happened to somebody at some point in history is relatively high.
Gavrilo Princip's shooting of the Archduke was also remarkable in more than what you said- he literally couldn't hit the broad side of a barn without his glasses.
Another thing about lincoln and kennedy: both presidents had a son who died when they were in office, with the same number of letters in their first names Lincoln's son was named William, and kennedy's son was named Patrick
Just one correction, it's GavriLO Princip and he was a Bosnian Serb. Generally the tinderbox of Europe is either people of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian or Macedonian decent; Bosnians are mainly ethnically 3 groups Croatians and Serbians and what are called Bosniaks which tend to me a mix or singularly one of those 2 mixed with Ottoman blood lines and general being followers of Islam. Great videos though, keep up the good work!
actually the Lincoln Kennedy thing is not true while they did have a lot in common Lincoln did not in fact have a secretary named Kennedy that is a myth
TopTenz, I love your videos and your voice just thought I'd mention back in 1982 I lived in Phila.Pa. my next door nieghbor was a relative of Dr. Mudd yes that Dr. Mudd the Dr. Mudd who treated John W. Booth. I guess Miss Mudd was about 90 at the time.she never married, she would invite me in for tea and show me pictures and mementos. It was pretty cool.
An even eerier Titanic coincidence is a piece by journalist W.T. Stead called "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic, by a Survivor". Not only does the scenario parallel the sinking of the Titanic, W.T. Stead was one of the 1500 people who died in the disaster.
Morgan Robertson's novel can be put down to educated guesswork. He was not an author before "Futility" but rather was a marine engineer. Indeed, Morgan Robertson invented the submarine periscope. He worked at a time when shipping lines were competing to build increasingly large and luxurious liners, which were given inspiring, heroic names. Robertson was also aware of the owners stocking insufficient lifeboats, partially through cost-cutting and partially because they spoiled the appearance of ships. And of course he was also aware of pack ice in the North Atlantic, and the propensity for shipping lines to dangerously disregard such in the race to have the fastest crossing. All in all, a tragedy like the Titanic sinking was almost bound to happen. Morgan Robertson recognised that, and "Futility" - which only had the subtitle "The Wreck of the Titan" added in its 1912 reprint - can be seen as a warning, rather than a prediction.
I'd be on the side of the Mathematicians regarding Lincoln and Kennedy. Party talk can be a lot of bollocks so you need a more sound input into the conversation.
4:30 With so many murders taking place throughout history I'm sure that there is a huge number of even more remarkable coincidences if you could gather and compare two different cases.
Small correction: Gavrilo Princip did Nito intend to kill princess Sophie, he missed general Potiorek who also was in the car and resonsable for security mesaures for Royal visit in Sarajevo. Further more, historians have reached agreament that assasination was exuse for war, not cause.
"Drive the motorcade past this grassy knoll where the gunman will be and the agents will run into the book depository and blame whoever is near the window." *Or* ... all the crazy coincidences ?
The coincidence with the D-Day crossword has been discovered to be not quite the coincidence that it once was. The man who published the crosswords used some of the crossword clues & answers that he had his students put together. One of the boys in his class happened to spend a lot of time on the nearby military base & overheard the words there.
Doug Walker said his favorite movie was "Brazil" and his favorite movie critic was Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert was the only critic on RottenTomatoes that didn't like "Brazil". Add that to the list!
Also Morgan Robinson the Author of Futility was writing Before Ships were 3 screw and before they were so large as Titanic. He also wrote a book about a World War before there had been a World War that started for the USA when they were attacked by the Empire of Japan which was when he was writing just recently opened up to the western world. The attack happened on a December Sunday. And there were these "Sun Bombs" that killed and burned people above decks on ships so that the Stokers the folk who fueled the engines by shoveling coal into the boilers, were the ones driving the ships since being below decks they had been spared damage from the Sun Bombs. Lastly in an age where the airplanes were made of wood, wire and canvas and were fairly slow the war planes in the novel were metal and fast, and armed with guns and bombs.
How are you able to a new one of these every single day? I would have thought that the research alone would take quite some time. Are you afraid that you may run out of subjects at some point? I highly respect people whom still go about their lives as independent scholars and who still care enough to research the facts in the capacity that you do. I know that you probably have a team of knowledge seekers that help you, how else could you produce these in such quantities while keeping up the quality. My only complaint would be that because I'm a glutton for knowledge that along with my own independent research of the random, I lose so much time binge watching your channel in a fevered thirst for all things knowledge and bizarre and some days get very little else done. I applaud you for your work ethic and passion in what you do.
Love these videos, but you've got the Oswald thing wrong. The House Select Com. on Assassinations 1976, said it was a conspiracy-left conspirators unnamed. Same with the civil case regarding MLK. Lone nut thing is wrong in these cases.
Actually the Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2nd 1776. The final draft of the text of the written document was approved by Congress on July 4th 1776, but it wasn't actually signed till August 2nd. (and I am a Canadian who knows a few world history facts - not an American - and yes I had to google the exact dates, but i knew that the declaration was NOT signed on July 4th - which in my opinion means the Americans should be celebrating their holiday in August)
The codeword Juno was also a landing beach like Utah and omaha, except it was assigned to the Empire not the US, so apparently nobody's heard of it... I believe it was the one mainly landed on by Canadians.
the day before Oswald was shot, he uttered five words to the ABC camera , 'I'm a patsy. Get it!' His being shot was recorded and aired on ABC. It showed Oswald being led out into a hallway handcuffed between two detectives who stepped away from him as Ruby charged giving Ruby a clear shot. Wonder if the films were destroyed! Anybody else see these news bits back then?
The words in the crossword puzzles in number 3 were not randomly chosen. The school teacher had his pupils supply the words to generate the puzzles. The town the school was in was situated near several military bases, as they were in the south of England, near the channel. The kids picked up the words by soldiers talking amongst themselves around town and, though had no idea of their meaning, used them in the crosswords.
The coincidences about famous people or famous events are likely to be remembered or shown here, but I'm sure thousands of such coincidences occur every day in silence, because they are the neighbor next door and no one care.
Not sure if it's true, but there was a play that showed how the secret words appeared in the crossword. The compiler was a teacher who would give the blank crosswords to his pupils to fill in as a detention punishment and then use them for the actual crossword. Apparently one of the pupils used to hang around a nearby American army base and, presumably as he was just a kid, the soldiers let slip the words in his hearing. He, being mystified and fascinated, then used them in the crossword.
Here's an intriguing coincidence that happened a few years ago in my hometown in north-east England, similar to the story of the Finnish twin brothers. A woman had her car stolen by a man who proceeded to drive recklessly to the other side of the town where he hit and killed another woman who was walking along the pavement. The woman he killed was the sister of the lady who's car he had stolen. My town has a population of about 100,000 people so we're not talking about a small village, the odds against something like this happening are pretty high I would say.
re 2 : the author of the book about the Titan was a surviving passenger on the Titanic and re:1 This was no coincidence. His CIA handler's wife got Oswald the job at the Book Depository. Oswald was not "at the perch" when Kennedy was shot...he was downstairs at a Coke machine.
Ford Lincoln. Lincoln is made by Ford yet branded as a Lincoln. Like me saying I drove a General Motors Vauxhall, or I own a Ford Aston Martin or BMW Mini Cooper.
The slightly lesser known fact about Lincoln/Kennedy is that one week before he was assassinated Lincoln was in Monroe Maryland. While one week before his assassination Kennedy was in Marylin Monroe!
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A week before Lincoln died, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy died, he was in Marilyn Monroe.
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"Of course, coincidences happen all the time" says it all really.
Also, we have evolved to see patterns in everything. If you look hard enough you can usually find it.
John Richard yup we call it confirmation bias in psychology
I gotta say, I applaud ***** for calling these coincidences....well, coincidences. So, so many people would instead claim "TOP TEN STRANGE PREDICTIONS THAT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE" or some nonsense like that. Coincidences are bound to happen, and I like people who leave them as that without getting into pseudo science.
Satoshi Matrix What if..there are no such things as coincidences?(insert scary music)
iTzYoMaster *raises pinky to lips*
Oh how truly _evil_!
Satoshi Matrix Well done!
nortan27 I truly do like it when people use their heads when it comes to the world. There's so much pseudo science bunk on the internet that's nothing more than clickbait for idiots. A lot of respect for ***** for being above that kind of nonsense.
iTzYoMaster Such a thing coinciding with with another is not so amazing. The word 'coincidence' literally describes occurrences that coincide. Meeting the same person on the train every morning is a coincidence.... sharing the same name, age and distant german great great uncle is when it becomes interesting. Incidents of Synchronicity better describe these examples
'Juno' was also the name of a Normandy beach on D-Day. It was the sector that fell to the Canadian Army. My Uncle, a Sergeant in the Calgary Highlanders Regiment fought on it.
To be fair to the number 9 spot, every president elected in a year ending in 0 since William Henry Harrison in 1840 died in office, until Reagan elected 1980 broke curse by surviving an assassination curse.
mage davee Curse Of Tippecanoe
Hickleys brother had dined with Neil Bush (the son of Reagan's Veep) a few nights before the shooting. This was mentioned ONCE on live TV the day of the attempt by John Chancellor and never repeated.
I think his last name is spelled Hinkley. I've heard a similar story a few times,but what I heard was George H.W.Bush himself(who was President Reagan's v.p.-against Reagan's wishes I might add,&Bush had been in high levels of the cia for years at this point)who met with John Hinkley Sr. within a week to 10 days prior to the assassination attempt against President Reagan, at a restaurant where they had a long&serious discussion. John Hinkley Sr. is/was John Hinkley Jr.'s dad,&it is well known that the Bush family and Hinkley family were close family friends as well as both families being very wealthy.
Most believe the hit on President Reagan was sponsored by none other than George H.W.Bush himself. President Reagan was pushing to have some things done that Bush and his cronies did not want touched or even talked about,&Bush was heavily into the Deep State and the New World Order who wanted a puppet in the Oval Office to do things the way they wanted them done,&Bush was their man!
Ronald Reagan had refused to allow Bush on his ticket at first when he was running for President because he knew too much about Bush and knew what kind of guy Bush truly was,&Reagan wanted to have no part in any of Bush's dirty dealings. As I mentioned previously,Bush was deep into the cia for quite a long time before he was ever placed on Reagan's ticket as his running mate. The Republican Party told Reagan that they would only support him for President if Bush was his v.p.
If you have any interest,you can find all these details online without too much effort.
@@mheb6370 Go GB was involved in the death of one (JFK) and in the attempted murder of another? I wonder what other dastardly deeds lie hidden?
@@samking73 yep
What we need is a top tenz list of top ten lists...
Bishop Howells Not enough. Let's go further make more than ten of those (I know they'll cancel out the concepts of eachother, but whatever) and pit those videos against eachother in a top tenz list of top ten lists of top ten lists.
Bishop Howells Okay, but only videos by all channels that make top 10 lists are considered for this top ten of top tens video: Alltime 10s, BuzzFeed, DangerDolan, List25, etc., etc...
Kirukitsu LoL! No, that's my last girlfriend in my mouth. I shrunk her with a "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" gun. She was delicious :-D
Hungry Guy OH NOOOOOOOOooooooooooo. Oh.
Bishop Howells Now that's the best idea I've heard in a very long time. Someone needs to make that video. lol
still more of Lincoln-Kennedy I never heard of
Thorton did it for me lol
...for those who live in the twilight zone
Oswald was not a coincidence - it doesn't even seem like one What it seems is completely suspicious
how abou tht shipwreck whose only 4 survivors had eaten a man named richard parker the coincidence is that there was a novel by Edgar Allan Poe published years before by that tells the same story where 4 men would eat their partner to survive a shipwreck also and tht man was named richard parker in the novel
David Frigault I couldn't agree more,these things are more than mere coincidences.
Added that...that was Poe's only non-horror book.
shipwreck...cannibalism... non-horror. hmmm
And Richard Parker was the tiger in The Life of Pi. Whaat??
@@winnynay19057 that was thought too!
Regarding #4, I heard that Adams and Jefferson actually became close friends and kept regular correspondence until shortly before their deaths. Adams' final words were something to the effect of "At least Jefferson is still alive." He'd had no way of knowing that Jefferson had actually died just a few hours prior.
How is no .7 not no. 1...tht is crazy
True.
I did a school paper on the Lincoln/Kennedy similarities. There’s a lot. Like, seriously a lot.
The weirdest coincidence in history is that when the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the first Indian they encountered knew how to speak English. True story. He had been acquainted with the English settlers in Virginia and was travelling through Massachusetts when the Pilgrims landed. Makes you think of those Flash Gordon movies where earthmen land on another planet and the natives of that planet speak the earthmen's language. Hey, it could happen!
That's not a coincidence
RRaquello the Indian you speak of had lived in England
I live close to Plymouth rock. I took my 7 yr old to see it and he was like "that's it"? Lol
😂😂, actually all European explorers took a Hebrew with them on voyages. It turns out that all indigenous people speak some form of Hebrew. 🤔
Hey you should watch the movie the Adams Family, the part when Wednesday was in a Thanksgiving play & told the true stories about the pilgrims & natives
Whats even more remarkable about Oswald is that he didnt kill Kennedy!
Exactly! He was not alone..
It was Woody Harrelson's dad . Look it up
Maybe it was Marilyn Monroe’s revenge . She died so someone blamed Kennedy.
It was friendly fire. Hamfisted newbie Secret Service recruit.
I am sick of the word sniper being used incorrectly. Lee Harvey Oswald was not a Marine sniper. He was a rifleman, who shooting skills earned him the badge of sharpshooter, which is second from the best which is expert. U.S. Marines no matter what their jobs are are taught from day one they are rifleman first and what ever M.O.S. skill set they are trained in second. As a U.S. Army sniper in the mid 1990s I was formally trained in stalking and bidding, and yes shooting. However my shooting skills were already present, as I had qualified as an expert in both pistol and rifle shooting for over 6 years before being accepted into sniper school. It seems now that any idiot who picks up a scoped rifle and kills someone at over 50 yards is labeled a Sniper. By that standard my son who shoots competition air rifle at 75 yards with a scope would be labeled a sniper, which is bull sheet. The art of a sniper is mainly one of being able to set up a good bidding place to shoot from then make the shot as undetectable as possible, then making a successful egress out of the danger zone. For every mission I shot on, I did 50 intel. Hides gathering information.
He actually achieved the lowest, passable shooting grade. He was a patsy.
His designation wa later lowered from Sharpshooter to Marksman when he tested lower on subsequent tests. He was far from a sniper which just goes to show how poorly researched these types of lists are.
Well said.
#1 was not a coincidence. It was a plan. The full details we still don't know.
The crossword 'coincidence' occurred because the schoolteacher who set the puzzles for The Times was making his pupils write them as a detention punishment. The offending crossword was compiled by a boy who had been hanging around an American base and had heard the words, although he did not understand the significance at the time.
Actually, the one with Franz Ferdinand's assassination is a bit wrong. The story is true, and it did spark World War 1. However, even if Franz Ferdinand weren't a victim of assassination, the chances are WW1 would have kicked off regardless. Everyone was just waiting for an excuse to go to war.
Something about the rise of Germany...
And you know the definition of Excuse.
Its the skin of a reason stuffed with a tissue of lies.
Hence “The powder keg”
@@jwrobin21 Nice one
That was a very interesting video. Thx
On number 2: writers have a knack of pointing out flaws in the system and have often seemingly predicted events... like the mentioned Tom Clancy who wrote about a B747 being flown into the Capitol Building and then some time later 9/11 happened.
Lee Harvey Oswald was not a Marine Corp sniper but an Aviation Electronic Operator.
A disgraced one that was kicked out at that.
Came here to say this
I dont see why everyone dislikes your videos.
Your voice is calming, I enjoy listening to you explain things i know nothing about.
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Oswald didn't kill JFK
Oswald was not a Marine sniper.
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No he didn't. Thank u
*JOHN F KENNEDY* was killed by the Italian American Marfa by order of the then vice president L.B.J. 👨🏫🤬 👥👀💣
The secretary link between Kennedy and Lincoln was proven to be incorrect.
So, what I get out of this is that...WWI could have been prevented if the driver had made the right turn. This means that Germany may never have been put into debt, meaning that WWII would never have happened, which means that the Holocaust could have been prevented...if the driver had made the right turn (also, if the assassin had not killed the Archduke). Moral of the story? Know where you're going. You just might prevent the next world war :)
At the time Europe was a powder keg waiting to blow up. There was so much tension that the war would've happened even if the archduke hadn't been shot. Something else would've happened to set it all off, that's all.
The cold war also wouldn't happen we wouldn't have nuclear bombs and the soviet union would still exist
Aiden Fielding But the Soviet Union only came into existance due to WWI.
But Myriad is right anyway, at the time any excuse was welcome for the Leaders of Europe to start a war.
HDreamer Thanks! Always nice to have some support ;)
rochestas Yes, but: WWI was bound to happen, the assassination was just the spark that set the bomb on fire. If the driver took the correct turn, the war might have started a few months later.
I found out just the other day that the formal address for the world headquarters of Facebook, is "1 Hacker Way."
To which I can only add, how is this not the only thing that anyone is talking about, anywhere, ever, all the time?
"Thinking quickfully?" Simon, that is one too many gaffes. You will now need to re-apply for your Queen's English Card.
Mathematician: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career.
The Lincoln Kennedy details was indeed astonishing and quite spooky. The Titan and Titanic was also astonishing. Looking into possible disasters that could occur in the atlantic ship crossing, he thought of one of the l likely ones and it did happen as written. Even reading the novel would have done no good for the unsinkable ship.
The Declaration of Independence was actually signed on August 2nd, 1776.
Great video mate
***** are ya'll australian??
TopTenz well, I need a job.
From Snopes:
Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to Ford's Theatre.
Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
This is one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence at all; it's simply wrong. John Kennedy did have a secretary named Evelyn Lincoln (who may or may not have warned him about going to Dallas), but one searches in vain to find a Lincoln secretary named Kennedy. (Lincoln's White House secretaries were John G. Nicolay and John Hay.)
Read more at www.snopes.com/history/american/lincoln-kennedy.asp#5XhJ6AlydC10aAOi.99
No he did not, and no he did not, ur just a little kid trying to outsmart an adult
OK so you only read the first lines the rest goes on to explain that NO he didn't when you see the blue words that say "read more" your should really click that before you comment.
Snopes is a left wing propaganda site. They could care less about actual facts.
@@ryanwinkelman1781 Snopes is just that it has proven itself to be: interested in facts for the sake of facts. Conspiracy is not nearly as common as some imagine.
One minor mistake, it's Gavrilo, not Gavriol :)
Some of these coincidences may be classified as seriality or synchronicity, as per Kammerer's and Jung's uses of the words respectively.
3:29 did you just say "quickfully"?
"thinking quick-_fully_"?
I was going to post this, I was sure I miss heard.
Yeah, I thought my ears stopped working...glad someone else heard it, too.
Bigly???
I know....And yet, undeniably, Simon somehow manages to pull it off, yet again (possibly it’s the accent?)
Shocking! Somebody said lots of words in a short video and made a mistake
The Adams / Jefferson story actually goes a little deeper. After the feuding between the two political rivals left them on non-speaking terms, mutual friend and signer of the DOI, Benjamin Rush had a dream that the two of them would begin to write letters back and forth and restore their relationship. Additionally he dreamed that they would die around the same time. He told his dream to Adams and urged him to write to Jefferson. Through a series of letters, they indeed eventually restored their relationship. On his death bed, Adams said, "at least Jefferson still lives," not knowing that he died just hours before.
3:29 Thinking quickfully? seems extra legitimate.
Another coincidence - I am a descendent of both John Adams and the best friend of Thomas Jefferson, lol.
Lee Harvey Oswald was NOT a sniper in the marines, but a radar operator who barely passed his general marksmanship requirements.
Oswald's job at the Texas Schoolbook Depository was procured for him by Bob and Ruth Paine less than 2 months before the assassination, and there's mounting evidence that the Paines were Oswald's CIA handlers. It was also in the home of the Paines that the police "found" the highly dubious photos of Oswald holding both murder weapons from his alleged crimes that day.
Not much of a coincidence.
Did you look at the pilot episode of the "The Lone Gunman" where it had an airliner crashing into the WTC, episode aired March 2001?
Green Goblin was also going to attack the World Trade Center in the Spider-Man movie but when it happened before they completed movie they changed him to attacking a different building.
The Lone Gunmen? I loved that series.
Well, having just caught this Top-Ten site of similarly-themed Top-Ten content for the first time you've got to ask why this site deserves to be singled out over the various, varied alternative Top Ten sites peddling six of one half a dozen of another? Listening to this Top-Tenz (that distinguishes itself from the other run-of-the-mill sites by ending with a "z")(and not because they put you to sleep) is the distinguishing, distinguished British accent that gives anything instant integrity and class as opposed to the other run of the mill sites that sound as pedestrian as their content. Another perspective is the manner in which the content is presented and expressed, more cerebral,. intellectual and profound than others I've sampled. So, I will be keeping up to date with Top-TenZ and their latest offerings by subscription.
#4 - what most people don't know, is that the Vice Presidency used to be given to the runner up of the Presidential election. This practice was stopped however as this meant the President's right hand was usually a bitter rival which doesn't bode well for an efficiently functioning government and as the Vice President is the 1st in the line of succession, having a rival in such a position is potentially quite hazardous to the President's health.
Law of large numbers. I loved VSauce's video about it explaining some of these coincidences.
There is a book called strategic warfare that depicted Navy seals from team 6 killing bin laden. Years before it actually happened.
Its weird going back to these old videos, after watching business blaze
I was always obsessively fascinated by the Titanic disaster as a child always asking for books relating to the subject.It sank on April 15th 1912.On April 15th 1989 the football team I support,Nottingham Forest, faced Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough Stadium Sheffield.The match was abandoned when mis-management at the Liverpool end resulted in the death of 96 supporters (JFT96!).My mother died on April 8th 1997,the funeral was set for April 15th.This was also the birthday of the women I was with at the time.On the way to the crematorium someone had coincidentally put up a banner saying "Happy 30th!" (it was her 30th birthday).I gotta say,I`m REALLY not a fan of April 15th!
Not a lot of people are... it's Tax Day.
Shunka Dee I always notice things when they occur on this day.its my mums birthday.
The makers of the Titanic didn't install enough life boats because it was supposed to be unsinkable. Who'd have thought that the world's first unsinkable ship would sink on its maiden voyage?!
the brother of booth saves the son of Lincoln wow....
Wow, great vid. However, I wouldn't have placed Oswald-and-his-job at the top of *this* list. More like 6-ish. Still good vid.
You've no idea how happy I am you didn't mention the Titanic was "unsinkable". It was only ever described that AFTER the sinking.
That may be true, but it was certainly thought of as one of the safest ships in the world, with complex watertight doors and pressurised rooms to avoid sinking.
Alex Papangelou Actually Alex, neither of those were new on the Titanic. In fact it wasn't even the first of it's "Olympic" class for the White Star Line, this was RMS Olympic.
Robert Leather Yes and a lot of the things about the novels describing/"predicting the Titanic were (supposedly) edited after the event to be more similar. The editor obvious saw some minor similarities and decided to reprint it while making it more inline with the actual events. Since the first print of the novel did poorly, there are few surviving copies and the second revised print (which did very well) has significantly more copies floating around, and the legend was born.
Four extremely powerful bankers that were in business with the Rothschild were on that ship, it was intentionally sunk.
I have 2 brothers. All three of us witnessed hit and run accidents in Post Office parking lots on the same day in three different states.
quickfully? M8...Quickly
lol
Lincoln lived in a log cabin with his dad and Kennedy spilled Log Cabin syrup in his dad's Lincoln.
Well here's the math put into simple words. You winning the lottery may be something special because of the tiny chance. But just anybody winning the lottery is less special because the chances are quite good that somebody is going to get the right numbers. It's the same with those events. The chance that it happens to you is tiny. But the chance that it happened to somebody at some point in history is relatively high.
Gavrilo Princip's shooting of the Archduke was also remarkable in more than what you said- he literally couldn't hit the broad side of a barn without his glasses.
Oswald was not a Marine sniper. He was a radar operator, quite different from a sniper.
Another thing about lincoln and kennedy: both presidents had a son who died when they were in office, with the same number of letters in their first names
Lincoln's son was named William, and kennedy's son was named Patrick
Very creepy, thanks Simon.
Just one correction, it's GavriLO Princip and he was a Bosnian Serb. Generally the tinderbox of Europe is either people of Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian or Macedonian decent; Bosnians are mainly ethnically 3 groups Croatians and Serbians and what are called Bosniaks which tend to me a mix or singularly one of those 2 mixed with Ottoman blood lines and general being followers of Islam. Great videos though, keep up the good work!
Consider this for the Titanic one, if the watertight doors were open, Titanic WOULD have capsized and the loss of life would have been far greater
wasn't the guy's name Gavrilo Princip, and not Gavriol?
Your narration voice and manner was destined for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I'm so listening to Simon in 2020.. This is bordering eerie
3:13 “asswarrge”?
I almost just thought that this video was from the future for a second.
Fascinating
actually the Lincoln Kennedy thing is not true while they did have a lot in common Lincoln did not in fact have a secretary named Kennedy that is a myth
I was also going to comment on this. Thanks for knocking it out early.
@@Damaged262 Also I seem to recall that the 4th was neither signing nor ratification, but something like publishing the thing in a local paper?
@@KaiHenningsen That's my recollection as well.
TopTenz, I love your videos and your voice just thought I'd mention back in 1982 I lived in Phila.Pa. my next door nieghbor was a relative of Dr. Mudd yes that Dr. Mudd the Dr. Mudd who treated John W. Booth. I guess Miss Mudd was about 90 at the time.she never married, she would invite me in for tea and show me pictures and mementos. It was pretty cool.
Mathematicians rarely get invited to THOSE kinds of parties, anyway.
An even eerier Titanic coincidence is a piece by journalist W.T. Stead called "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic, by a Survivor". Not only does the scenario parallel the sinking of the Titanic, W.T. Stead was one of the 1500 people who died in the disaster.
Morgan Robertson's novel can be put down to educated guesswork. He was not an author before "Futility" but rather was a marine engineer. Indeed, Morgan Robertson invented the submarine periscope. He worked at a time when shipping lines were competing to build increasingly large and luxurious liners, which were given inspiring, heroic names. Robertson was also aware of the owners stocking insufficient lifeboats, partially through cost-cutting and partially because they spoiled the appearance of ships. And of course he was also aware of pack ice in the North Atlantic, and the propensity for shipping lines to dangerously disregard such in the race to have the fastest crossing.
All in all, a tragedy like the Titanic sinking was almost bound to happen. Morgan Robertson recognised that, and "Futility" - which only had the subtitle "The Wreck of the Titan" added in its 1912 reprint - can be seen as a warning, rather than a prediction.
Mark Chapman got 20 years for killing JL. That's finished now. Now he's doing 20 years for missing Yoko.
He should get a damn sight more than 20 years for missing that arsehole! haha!
Graeme W he was a patsy
I'd be on the side of the Mathematicians regarding Lincoln and Kennedy. Party talk can be a lot of bollocks so you need a more sound input into the conversation.
4:30 With so many murders taking place throughout history I'm sure that there is a huge number of even more remarkable coincidences if you could gather and compare two different cases.
The first clip about finnish brothers. They were both mailmen also they were at work when it happened.
Small correction: Gavrilo Princip did Nito intend to kill princess Sophie, he missed general Potiorek who also was in the car and resonsable for security mesaures for Royal visit in Sarajevo. Further more, historians have reached agreament that assasination was exuse for war, not cause.
Some of the Titanic survivors reported their shock at what was happening during the tragedy because they had read the novella about the Titan.
"Drive the motorcade past this grassy knoll where the gunman will be and the agents will run into the book depository and blame whoever is near the window."
*Or* ... all the crazy coincidences ?
The coincidence with the D-Day crossword has been discovered to be not quite the coincidence that it once was. The man who published the crosswords used some of the crossword clues & answers that he had his students put together. One of the boys in his class happened to spend a lot of time on the nearby military base & overheard the words there.
yeeehhh but EVERYONE knows oswald didnt kill kennedy
Doug Walker said his favorite movie was "Brazil" and his favorite movie critic was Roger Ebert.
Roger Ebert was the only critic on RottenTomatoes that didn't like "Brazil".
Add that to the list!
Also Morgan Robinson the Author of Futility was writing Before Ships were 3 screw and before they were so large as Titanic. He also wrote a book about a World War before there had been a World War that started for the USA when they were attacked by the Empire of Japan which was when he was writing just recently opened up to the western world. The attack happened on a December Sunday. And there were these "Sun Bombs" that killed and burned people above decks on ships so that the Stokers the folk who fueled the engines by shoveling coal into the boilers, were the ones driving the ships since being below decks they had been spared damage from the Sun Bombs. Lastly in an age where the airplanes were made of wood, wire and canvas and were fairly slow the war planes in the novel were metal and fast, and armed with guns and bombs.
621 has always been a reoccurring number in my life.
How are you able to a new one of these every single day? I would have thought that the research alone would take quite some time. Are you afraid that you may run out of subjects at some point? I highly respect people whom still go about their lives as independent scholars and who still care enough to research the facts in the capacity that you do. I know that you probably have a team of knowledge seekers that help you, how else could you produce these in such quantities while keeping up the quality. My only complaint would be that because I'm a glutton for knowledge that along with my own independent research of the random, I lose so much time binge watching your channel in a fevered thirst for all things knowledge and bizarre and some days get very little else done. I applaud you for your work ethic and passion in what you do.
Love these videos, but you've got the Oswald thing wrong. The House Select Com. on Assassinations 1976, said it was a conspiracy-left conspirators unnamed. Same with the civil case regarding MLK.
Lone nut thing is wrong in these cases.
Also, Titanic and a Titan were "RMS," not "HMS," which is reserved for warships. And the death toll was 1,500 people, not 2,500.
Actually the Declaration of Independence was signed on August 2nd 1776. The final draft of the text of the written document was approved by Congress on July 4th 1776, but it wasn't actually signed till August 2nd. (and I am a Canadian who knows a few world history facts - not an American - and yes I had to google the exact dates, but i knew that the declaration was NOT signed on July 4th - which in my opinion means the Americans should be celebrating their holiday in August)
30 years apart, my dad died the same day my mom did.
The codeword Juno was also a landing beach like Utah and omaha, except it was assigned to the Empire not the US, so apparently nobody's heard of it... I believe it was the one mainly landed on by Canadians.
the day before Oswald was shot, he uttered five words to the ABC camera , 'I'm a patsy. Get it!' His being shot was recorded and aired on ABC. It showed Oswald being led out into a hallway handcuffed between two detectives who stepped away from him as Ruby charged giving Ruby a clear shot. Wonder if the films were destroyed! Anybody else see these news bits back then?
How do you cast an actor without knowing their name?
The words in the crossword puzzles in number 3 were not randomly chosen. The school teacher had his pupils supply the words to generate the puzzles. The town the school was in was situated near several military bases, as they were in the south of England, near the channel. The kids picked up the words by soldiers talking amongst themselves around town and, though had no idea of their meaning, used them in the crosswords.
Rest In Peace to those that passed away.
Lincoln did NOT have a secretary named Kennedy. But John Wilkes Booth’s elder brother did save Robert Todd Lincoln’s life.
The coincidences about famous people or famous events are likely to be remembered or shown here, but I'm sure thousands of such coincidences occur every day in silence, because they are the neighbor next door and no one care.
Not sure if it's true, but there was a play that showed how the secret words appeared in the crossword. The compiler was a teacher who would give the blank crosswords to his pupils to fill in as a detention punishment and then use them for the actual crossword. Apparently one of the pupils used to hang around a nearby American army base and, presumably as he was just a kid, the soldiers let slip the words in his hearing. He, being mystified and fascinated, then used them in the crossword.
Here's an intriguing coincidence that happened a few years ago in my hometown in north-east England, similar to the story of the Finnish twin brothers. A woman had her car stolen by a man who proceeded to drive recklessly to the other side of the town where he hit and killed another woman who was walking along the pavement. The woman he killed was the sister of the lady who's car he had stolen. My town has a population of about 100,000 people so we're not talking about a small village, the odds against something like this happening are pretty high I would say.
re 2 : the author of the book about the Titan was a surviving passenger on the Titanic and re:1 This was no coincidence. His CIA handler's wife got Oswald the job at the Book Depository. Oswald was not "at the perch" when Kennedy was shot...he was downstairs at a Coke machine.
What about the person who survived the Titanic and a couple of other ship sinkings... Don't remember more details.
Ford Lincoln. Lincoln is made by Ford yet branded as a Lincoln. Like me saying I drove a General Motors Vauxhall, or I own a Ford Aston Martin or BMW Mini Cooper.
The slightly lesser known fact about Lincoln/Kennedy is that one week before he was assassinated Lincoln was in Monroe Maryland. While one week before his assassination Kennedy was in Marylin Monroe!