The article presents 15 strange and unexplained coincidences that have occurred throughout history.
1. A street sweeper named Yosef Fig Locke saved two babies who fell from high-rise windows in Detroit in 1937 and 1938, in two separate incidents.
2. A disproportionately high number of U.S. presidents have been left-handed, including five of the last seven, despite left-handedness being considered a disability in the 18th and 19th centuries.
3. Hugh Williams, a man who survived multiple shipwrecks, was the sole survivor of four separate shipwrecks between 1660 and 1940.
4. A taxi driver in Bermuda struck and killed a man in 1975 and his brother in 1976 while riding the same moped.
5. John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln shared many coincidences, including being elected 100 years apart and being shot in the back of the head in front of their wives on a Friday.
6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination led to World War I, and his car had a license plate that read "A III 118," which coincided with the end of the war on November 11, 1918.
7. A message in a bottle was found in 2006 that had been at sea for 92 years, and its finder, Mark Anderson, was later surpassed by his friend Andrew Leper, who found an even older message in a bottle.
8. James Dean's car was considered to be a bad luck omen after his death, and several people associated with the car met with accidents or death.
9. King Umberto I of Italy met his doppelganger, a restaurant owner, and discovered many similarities between them, including being born on the same day and marrying women with the same name.
10. Bruce Lee's final movie, "Enter the Dragon," featured a plot where his character was killed by a prop gun, and his son, Brandon Lee, died in a similar accident on the set of "The Crow."
11. Henry Ziegland was shot in the face by his girlfriend's brother in 1883 but survived and later died when he tried to cut down a tree with a bullet lodged in it.
12. A British man, Robert Fallon, was shot dead by his poker rivals in 1858, and his estranged son, who had not seen him in nearly a decade, unknowingly took his place and won a large sum of money.
13. George D. Bryson checked into a hotel room in the 1950s and discovered that the previous occupant was also named George D. Bryson.
14. Twin brothers died within hours of each other in separate accidents on the same road in Finland in 2002.
These coincidences are presented as unexplained and often bizarre events that have occurred throughout history.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. A street sweeper named Yosef Fig Locke saved a baby who fell from a fourth-story building in Detroit in 1937.
2. The same street sweeper, Yosef Fig Locke, saved another baby who fell from a high-rise window the following year.
3. About 10% of the US population are left-handed, but more than half of the last 14 US presidents were left-handed.
4. In the 18th and 19th centuries, left-handedness was considered a punishable disability, and kids were forced to be right-handed until the 1970s.
5. In 1660, a ship sank in the Dover Straits, and a man named Williams was the only survivor.
6. In 1767, another ship sank in the same area, and another Hugh Williams was the only survivor.
7. In 1820, a ship capsized on the Thames, and a man named Hugh Williams was the only survivor.
8. In 1940, a ship was destroyed by a German mine, and a man and his nephew, both named Hugh Williams, were the only survivors.
9. In 2006, a fisherman named Mark Anderson found a 92-year-old message in a bottle, which landed him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.
10. Andrew Leper, a friend of Mark Anderson, later found a 98-year-old message in a bottle, breaking Anderson's record.
11. John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln had many coincidences in their lives, including being elected to Congress and being shot in the back of the head.
12. In 1975, a man in Bermuda was accidentally struck and killed by a taxi, and his brother was killed the same way a year later, while riding the same moped.
13. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in a car with a license plate that read A III 1 1 8, which is the same date of the armistice that ended World War I.
14. Bruce Lee's final movie, "Enter the Dragon," featured a plot where a character is killed by a prop gun, which is similar to how Lee's son, Brandon, was killed on the set of "The Crow."
15. King Umberto of Italy was assassinated in 1900, and he had met a man who was his doppelganger, who had many similarities with him, including being born on the same day and marrying a woman with the same name.
16. James Dean's car, which he was driving when he was killed, was later considered to be a bad luck omen, and several people were killed or injured while handling the car.
17. In 1883, Henry Ziegland was shot in the face by the brother of a woman he had abandoned, but the bullet only grazed his face and lodged in a tree.
18. Years later, Ziegland returned to the scene and tried to cut down the tree, but the bullet was dislodged and killed him.
19. In 1858, a British man named Robert Fallon was shot dead by his poker rivals, who suspected him of cheating.
20. The money Fallon had won was given to the first person who passed the saloon, who turned out to be Fallon's estranged son.
21. In the 1950s, a man named George T. Bryson checked into a hotel room, only to find that the previous occupant had the same name as him.
22. In 2002, twin brothers died within hours of each other in separate accidents on the same road in northern Finland.