10 Strangest Historical Coincidences That Need Explaining

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[@keitha9712]

Anyone else fall asleep to these videos😂

[@JoanneKane-ok9ni]

Yup 😴

[@red3here]

No.

[@andyvega5584]

Isn't this recycled from another episode. Out.

[@ibsnafu1]

Yes, not always intentionally, his voice is so soothing, I love listening, and love the stories, but sometimes it's just so .... comforting, to listen to❤😂

[@nottheone3957]

Almost every night 🤣 not on purpose just don’t make it past one video at night and I always try to watch these ever night. Love the videos but never make it more than 10mins 🤣🤣

[@joshuastoner1]

Man, can't a guy just lie about his name using both of the names of the random strangers he'd just met anymore?

[@toddaulner5393]

I have a friend named Josh who actually did that.

[@rsmcroberts]

I do it all the time at work to screw with people. If not my name, then birthday or some sort of info other people give up.

[@RaccoonCityPD]

And my name's Josh Aulner-McRoberts. Your point being?

[@joshuastoner1]

@@RaccoonCityPD 😄

[@toddaulner5393]

@@RaccoonCityPD , we are related then. You got time to go grab a beer? Your treat..

[@kathryncumberland]

Grover Cleveland was most certainly *_NOT_* the second president. He was the _twenty_ -second and twenty-fourth.

[@JaredGenesis444]

sup cutie

[@positivevibetec]

Adams was second

[@positivevibetec]

It's kind of hard to believe this guy when he gets his facts wrong on something so simple

[@RickyMaveety]

Yeah these AI narrators are horrible.

[@RickyMaveety]

@@positivevibetecIt’s AI.

[@benjiebenjamin7810]

May 2006 my stomach & colon burst apart. Dr in ER told me I was the 2nd case, 1st woman, he'd heard of that survived such, the other being a man a decade before me. About a decade after I was a pilot car for oversized loads, on this particular trip of windmill parts, many other trucks & pilot cars parked in a huge rest area. While allowing my dog to potty, stretching my legs, a pilot car driver came up to pet my dog, started chatting & he told me his stomach & colon burst apart in mid '90s. What were the odds the other patient to survive was doing the same type job, chasing same type loads, going to the same drop off meeting coincidentally at the same rest area on the same project? His 1st name was same as my baby brother.

[@seattlefloyd]

Walter Summerford: exists Zeus: "F**k that dude, specifically."

[@kushfairyny1]

😂😂😂 I can't help it bit that story had me in hysterical laughter cause like wtffff😂😂😂

[@howardhales6325]

You went through Christopher Lloyd's entire career without mentioning Taxi's Reverend Jim?

[@charlesgoad6695]

It's a almost like people never heard of Genetics .Nope gotta be a time traveler

[@stellarart3444]

Okay, the Charlie Sheen, and Christopher Lloyd ones are ridiculous.

[@usachris7731]

There are plenty of actors that have an old-fashioned picture that looks just like them, but Charlie Sheen is not one of them. None of the humans looked like him, and cartoons could be made to look like anybody, that's just silly.

[@danielsharvell-jones9206]

1 in 12,000 chance of being struck by lightning?!!! Possibly one of the most stupid things I've ever heard

[@brianew]

I don't like those odds at all

[@cbs577]

The Charlie Sheen bit is the stupidest thing I've ever heard 😅

[@Jeff_11B]

29:41 Uhhhhh, that's Butthead from "Beavis and Butthead".

[@gary-rr7jp]

The Charlie Sheen resemblances seemed like a bit of a stretch.🤪

[@megiab]

Agreed. apparently the fact that Charlie Sheen is kinda basic is a shocking coincidence 😂

[@glennhoefer6212]

I was going to comment basically the same thing😅

[@user-cy2qh5wi1o]

I think there are knots tied tight around his neck as well as it being his name!!

[@erocj1176]

Terrible

[@davidgarris5440]

I know a guy who got struck 3 times. It seems that people who get struck often have it happen again

[@user-fp5ks4md9y]

Because they tend to lead lives, have jobs ect. that brring them into situations where they can be struck more than the average person.

[@eirikraude854]

None of the so-called time travellers looked alike at all! Totally different! What pile of junk!

[@m.michaels]

You're gonna lose us of you keep going AI buddy...

[@alexpriedite1447]

I did not know that about Dominque! I loved watching her in the Olympics ❤

[@JacknVictor]

I think I need to go to Specsavers because none of those resembled each other, especially the Charlie Sheen one. Theres no resemblance between Charlie Sheen and Corey Feldman. The only connections Charlie Sheen has had with Corey, was when charlies todger forcibly connected with Corey's underage ringpiece when they were working in filns together in the 1980's.

[@Jammo1978]

That was Corey haim bet when Corey feldman sees this he'll be like 😮you must know what he did to me but you still went there 😂😂😂

[@luanagardner1815]

This is one of my favorite episodes! Thanks Ty!

[@nathanpulliam4013]

I do

[@beezysbeatz4924]

1:56 .....there were far fewer people in Peru and traveling to Peru back then

[@HumanBeano]

Thanks for the video

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

After everything Roosevelt did, grover had a vision of the future or something

[@davidponseigo8811]

Children are amazingly adaptable and if taught from a early age can learn anything.

[@paulpennington-mv7rt]

Except how not to have their faces blurred out of view in these videos. We live in some strange and disturbing times now.

[@toddaulner5393]

You ever see the percentage of Genius level intelligence of babies and then young children then to adulthood?

[@lindakay9552]

Thanks!

[@MrJentu]

“Experts also notice a strange resemblance between Charlie Sheen and Biggs from the Final Fantasy 7 Remake. They also sound very similar. It is almost as if Biggs was designed after Sheen or something.”

[@Eminems_woman_4_life]

When I went interstate 1 time, not only did i meet someone from my state, but i knew them as well

[@mRibbons]

It's also oddly coincidental that there were 2 Dominique's on team USA in 1996. Dominique Moceanu and Dominique Dawes.

[@19slshaw63]

29:38 comparing Charlie Sheen to Butthead is a bit of a stretch

[@ryansharp4691]

I have a hard time believing that doctors told parents to carry their legless daughter around in a bucket.

[@megiab]

This channel isn't the most reliable for facts, but a bucket baby is just flat out absurd.

[@riptantorn5337]

No... it's not. They use to put cages out of widows in sky rises for babies to sit in. You guys must not know about old shitty parenting which is a good thing.

[@margiecasey9428]

There is a yt channel called Sabia and Loren. Loren had a terrible accident at work and lost the lower part of his body. They created a bucket for him.

[@Jessiethreesixty]

Doctors told my mum in 1985 that if she didn’t want my brother, who had been born unexpectedly with Down syndrome, she could just leave him there and they would deal with it. I’m not surprised by much after hearing that

[@jesseroggio7260]

My first cousin has Downs. She was born in 1984.

[@keymaster430]

The story of Henry Ziegland is also quite fascinating. The one about someone trying to shoot him and missing. Then the bullet gets stuck in a tree. Then, 20 years later, the same man for which the bullet was intended goes to cut down the tree. And when he strikes the part of the tree where the bullet was lodged in, it fires, shoots and kills him

[@user-ol2so9ce2q]

Wtf? A bullet can't be fired twice. At least not as you describe.

[@keymaster430]

@@user-ol2so9ce2q yeah, you know what? Maybe the bullet didn't explode, but when he struck it with the axe, it flew perhaps? Don't quite remember. Thank you for pointing that out.

[@franciscoguerrero7746]

I love AI, the voice is so calming and soothing.

[@harlyathan7756]

Honestly I hope the story with the gymnastics is true because growing Dominique ( I even remember her trainers name Bella karyoli , however it's spelled) was a huge crush at thirteen years old

[@j.p.6932]

33:33 Wait, the narrator’s name is Ty (tie) Knots? Please tell me his parents didn’t do that to him.

[@fishman5519]

Amazing story abt the sisters! Thats awesomeness! ❤

[@Asiablue]

Great video and fabulous graphics ❤️

[@isaac12411]

I think the dog is Dogmeat from the game which means it's damn near indestructible and immortal 😂

[@joemc1960]

“Two discontinued terms”? You don’t mean discontinued, you mean nonconsecutive.

[@TotalDec]

There's a Sliders ep. about penicillin. Very good watch.

[@Joanla1954]

What kind of a jerk was Henri that he was in 1 duel on up to 5?

[@antitactic2994]

wheres hecklefish??

[@Aaron-og2wx]

I don't understand why some adoptive parents don't tell their child thry are adopted? That would ruin me finding out by myself

[@zappababe8577]

17:00 15th August is also Victory in Japan day!

[@HankHopeless]

26:47 : WTF ? You censor out guns in 3d graphics ???? WHATS WRONG WITH YOU ? - Or rather with KZbin

[@jackd.ripper3139]

A GREAT DEAL, FRIEND… our country is a COMMUNIST NANNY-STATE…. How else could you justify a puppet president, DEM🐀🐀 Aparatchiks passing ANTI-🇺🇸 Constitutional BILLS, letting MILLIONS OF CRIMINALS FROM South American Countries, ILLEGALLY INTO OUR COUNTRY 🫤🫤❤️😘🤨🫤🫤🤨🤨🫤🫤🤨🤨🫤🫤

[@jackd.ripper3139]

A GREAT DEAL, FRIEND… our country is a COMMUNIST NANNY-STATE…. How else could you justify a puppet president, DEM🐀🐀 Aparatchiks passing ANTI-🇺🇸 Constitutional BILLS, letting MILLIONS OF CRIMINALS FROM South American Countries, ILLEGALLY INTO OUR COUNTRY 🫤🫤❤️😘🤨🫤🫤🤨🤨🫤🫤🤨🤨🫤🫤

[@lindakay9552]

9:42 I've heard this story dozens of times..... But all of a sudden, I'm sitting here seeing Thor sitting in Asgard, every decade or so, just randomly brewing up a storm, and zapping the "Hel" out of Loki. 😂

[@renkiki4906]

The whole time travel thing can be explained. They aren't time traveling, sadly. They are probably just related. I have a picture of my dad holding a picture of his grandfather from the 1800s. They look identical. Down to lines on their faces.

[@yoredeerleader]

Is it really a coincidence that cyclones, basically the name for hurricane in tropical East Asia, occur in a sequence starting roughly at the same time each year, once ocean temperatures reach a critical point? I guess it’s also a coincidence the sun rises at approximately the same time each day depending on the latitude of your location and over the course of a year ends up being the same time as last year? Or is that just the mathematical reality of a rotating oblate spheroid which has its poles at a particular angle in relation to the ecliptic plane of the solar system, which can be calculated with an unbelievable level of precision to make extremely precise predictions about the movement of celestial bodies far into the future because the system has been stable and doing the same thing for literally billions of years and will continue to do so until the sun becomes a red giant, expanding and consuming the inner rocky planets, eventually running out of fuel and going supernova leaving only the suns inner core as some flavour of strange matter star whether white dwarf, collapsar, magnetar or black hole

[@wojciechmikosz407]

Mainly loads of bull...t... .

[@backbitting6775]

People are creatures of habit. Clearly lightening boy was repeating the same patterns that got him struck the first time - being by a water or trees during a lightening storm. If he was in the house / indoors and got struck that would be impressive Also for those watching. Your body operates on electrical current from your brain to muscle organs and etcetera. So you can actually use microcurrent therapy to help rehabilitate muscles and other ailments. So it's not surprising that one electrical strike corrected his paralysis while the next electrical strike did him in. the intensity of the lightning also matters We use microcurrent in Muscle Therapy today.

[@neo13feather_baby12]

Unlike Mr. Summerferd I haven't been hit 5 or 6 times but I have been indirectly hit by lightning via metal dog chain, a metal yard light pole, and twice through the water in the shower 🚿. The only one I actually was able to see happen was once in the shower. I saw a bright blue strike of light come through the water and my left arm an leg suddenly went numb and I feel through the shower door unable to feel my left side for about 10 minutes then pins and needles all through the left side.

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

Ok but what happened to the dog and why was it on a chain during a storm?

[@erocj1176]

​@@woodworkingandepoxy643lmao

[@thegraydirewolf9325]

Christopher Loyd and him look nothing alike. Man you reach so far

[@backbitting6775]

There's so many ads on this I can't even watch a full video

[@shadowlouise]

I did not see any ads. But I use a laptop and I have an ad blocker. Could that explain the difference?

[@indivisible885]

I remember Dominique, the gymnast. That was the last Olympics I really watched. I've seen a few events since then but I don't follow sports anymore. I think that was the year Carrie Strugg broke a foot and had to land on her good one. I could be mistaken

[@j.p.6932]

29:31 There’s a passing resemblance between these people, but none of them look EXACTLY alike. I look more like my brother, and we’re not even twins.

[@taniaarrington7669]

I know you just pissed Cory Feldman smooth off with this resemblance 😆🤣🤣

[@j.p.6932]

6:39 How would you not know your mother was pregnant? How old were each kids when the other was born?

[@brianstiles1701]

The celebrity resemblance bits in this one made me pull a muscle from all the reaching

[@sonjacharles2457]

I'm just watching the first one again before I go on. Think I missed the point.

[@fredkimtagg726]

Cage’s ears are totally different

[@edjasper6296]

I like when he says ,"the president said something strange " haahaaa. Hold my beer.

[@user-ol2so9ce2q]

Time traveling Joe.😂😂😂

[@treadingnine1]

Whoa

[@gangly37]

There is nothing coincidental about one person looking like another (or a cartoon/fictional character) and to imply such is insulting.

[@yoredeerleader]

The number of people in a population with a particular family name has literally nothing to do with popularity. The determining factor in how you acquire you family name is the name of your father. Generational wealth also passes through families. This is the stupidest strangest historical coincidence that needs explaining ever.

[@lindakay9552]

John Brown is a descendant of ny 9th great grandfather, Deacon Joshua Brown, b. 10 April 1642, Newbury, MA.

[@jenniferriley4463]

That's why I watch it

[@Ace_BX]

At 12:01 look at those hands 🤨.

[@ernieblue5307]

Bingham Powell? So what? I have coincidences like this and better occur almost every day.

[@dadassery8506]

The hell was that first sentence?

[@RickyMaveety]

The AI screwed up Summerford’s name … anyone else catch that?

[@echelonrank3927]

yehh, every single ai generated sign was messed up

[@MrTnbopp123]

The way he talks about the surname thing annoys me, statistics dont work like he explains it.. you cant take a random "rare" event and then look around for things to make it more and more unlikely. You can do that with everything, what was the chance you read this comment? there is 10 billion people that could have read it but you did, and on top of that you read it this exact moment and not in 20 minutes.. you can make anything extremely unlikely by adding factors of your choice

[@user-yt2ur1fp4z]

Interesting

[@brigidsingleton1596]

Just _why_ is it _so daunting_ an experience to travel by _train_?!😮😂

[@EyeCue23]

🤺“I CHALLENGE YOU TO A DUEL” … AKA “it’s on site “

[@Soulaliss]

History repeats itself. Lot of the things Israel did in the past Americans are doing it now

[@user-fp5ks4md9y]

Well if it is a coincidence then it doesn't need to be explained. The explanation is that is a coincidence.😂

[@richvail7551]

The facial lookalikes are definitely not very convincing. I’ve moved many times in my life and during those years I’ve met similar looking and sometimes similar looking and acting people. That’s just something that happens when you have billions of people plus all the dead people that had photos taken of themselves.

[@keymaster430]

"Mr. Leach" is actually Butthead.

[@nlakeshnomisdai9051]

Coincidences do not exist

[@eequeenoid]

how about no.

[@brianfarley2388]

Weirdly there are some black ppl that bear resemblance to Thomas Jefferson.... Time travel

[@Ms.Delphine1204]

You just be counting down anything 😂

[@toddaulner5393]

My surname is super rare.

[@bethanydoyal6743]

Beavis and Butthead 😂😂😂

[@kathryncumberland]

"The rivers of History will never cease to run dry of eerie parallels..." Dude, do you even read this crap or do you just mindlessly spout whatever word salad AI puts together for you? A river running dry means it's empty - nothing left. So saying that the rivers will never cease to run dry of eerie parallels means that there are no eerie parallels and there never will be. It's an extremely odd phrase to lead off with in a video about *_eerie parallels_* ! Words mean things. You consistently butcher them both by mispronunciation and by misuse. Stop it!!!

[@erocj1176]

The one dude and the actor from Back 2 the Future look nothing alike😅

[@lauraleecreations3217]

❤❤❤

[@jasonluttgens3217]

Typhoon my butt, it was Godzilla 🐉🦎

[@MykArd]

Do you not understand statistics at all? Many of these are not unlikely occurrences. To assist your intuition, start by imagining your last name is Bingham-Powell. The really “rare” part of the coincidence is now automatic. Nearly one of every thousand people you meet will be named “Bingham”, and far more will be “Powell”. You certainly won’t meet both a Bingham and a Powell regularly, but you have an entire lifetime for it to happen. Actually it’s WAY more than a lifetime though. There are MANY people named Bingham-Powell, and if it happens to ANY of them, EVER, this story results. But wait - it’s way more likely than that. We aren’t actually looking for “Bingham-Powell” because we only knew that was the name AFTER the coincidence. At its core, this coincidence is just a person with a hyphenated last name meeting strangers that share the parts of his name. So the real question is how many people have hyphenated names? Each of them has their entire lifetime to experience this coincidence. The truth is, this happens ALL THE TIME.

[@Nater99]

I’ve watched Pro Wreslting my whole life, grew up watching Edge. Dude looks nothing like edge 😂

[@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard]

Just... Lookup the law of truly large numbers. It might make some of the dumbness less.

[@Eternal_11_Sasha]

Been through 5 ads still waiting for video to start... good lord this is getting out of hand..

[@user-cy2qh5wi1o]

Buy an ad blocker!!

[@sammac3685]

At 4:51 the AI image created incudes a woman who has a front butt what did they train there AI with I wounder 🤔

[@ErindidaJuanitaAaliyahRemeriez]

The Maya became The Aztecs, it was a crazy sect of that tribe..Charlie Sheen may be a Time Traveler. Not sure through, he licenses his likeness a lot.

[@whyis45stillalive]

Roy L. Sullivan was struck, by lightning, seven times.

[@Chris-yq8fc]

Lazy A.I not that ty reads his comments anyway

[@jdkeno257]

There IS no coincidence. Just fate. We r pre destined 2 live by fates rules. 😢😢😢. U r just an NPC. Live it 2 ur fullest. ❤😊

[@cassiecatcat]

I know people with the first two last names

[@cassiecatcat]

I wonder where in Hudson valley James was from cuz I’m from there lol

[@AnonyMous-er7fw]

​@@cassiecatcatuh, me too

[@Jammo1978]

Take when you got to number 2 you were just running out of coincidences then coz that was just poor 😂😂😂

[@born2shine4ever]

Please stop using these AI templates. Stop being lazy and pull real photos. 🙄😒

[@sullivancalgary]

Whomp whomp

[@katiekat4457]

All the lookalikes were stupid. Sure they looked similar but none of them looked exactly alike.

[@echelonrank3927]

quality control cmon, thousands of blind freddies are satisfied