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Historys Most Unbelievable Coincidences

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Jonathan Swift's Martian moon discovery

misslily In 1726, writer Jonathan Swift accurately predicted that Mars had two moons and detailed their orbital periods before telescopes could see them.

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Edgar Allan Poe's cannibal cabin boy

misslily Edgar Allan Poe wrote a fictional story about shipwrecked sailors eating a companion named Richard Parker, which became a horrific reality 46 years later.

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Fun Facts

Fun Fact

Titanic prediction: In Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella, the fictional ship Titan sank exactly 400 miles from Newfoundland, which is incredibly close to where the real Titanic sank.

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Quizzes

Quiz

In which 1726 classic novel did the author accurately predict that Mars had two orbiting moons?

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What element did H.G. Wells correctly identify as the power source for his fictional bombs in his 1914 book?

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Which physicist was directly inspired to conceptualize the nuclear chain reaction after reading H.G. Wells's sci-fi novel?

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What are the names of the two real moons of Mars that Jonathan Swift predicted in his 1726 book?

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In what year did the real-life shipwreck of the yacht Mignonette occur, mirroring Edgar Allan Poe's fictional cabin boy tragedy?

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What was the main reason Morgan Robertson's fictional ship Titan lacked enough lifeboats, mirroring the Titanic?

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What was the name of the fictional ship in Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella that closely mirrored the Titanic?

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Which author wrote about shipwrecked sailors cannibalizing a cabin boy named Richard Parker decades before it actually happened?

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Glosario

Glossary
premonition (noun)
A strong feeling or anticipation that something, especially something unpleasant, is about to happen. Morgan Robertson's 1898 novella uncannily anticipated the Titanic's tragic 1912 sinking fourteen years before it happened.

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Gossip

Gossip

Which literary coincidence creeps you out most?

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Videos

misslily Edgar Allan Poe wrote about shipwreck survivors eating cabin boy Richard Parker, which actually happened in 1884.

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misslily In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift wrote that Mars had two moons 151 years before astronomers discovered them.

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misslily Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, a novella described an unsinkable ship named Titan hitting an iceberg.

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