Incredible Coincidences That Are Hard To Believe Have Actually Happened

Fascinating enough (but perhaps not shocking), scientists are always trying to solve the mystery of the coincidence, and while theories of how they occur have been proposed, there is yet to be any definitive answer, and even if a theorist has an “answer,” it is largely subjective. According to statistician David Spiegelhalter, there are numerous explanations for how coincidences occur (and why largely, coincidences can be considered rather predictable and scientific instead of striking displays of chance), and one of them is called “the law of truly large numbers, which says that anything remotely possible will eventually happen, if we wait long enough” (Spiegelhalter 2012).