Coincidences Poll

The sun and the moon appear to be exactly the same size when viewed from the surface of the earth, thus allowing total solar eclipses to occur.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

You go on holiday to an exotic location and see somebody from your hometown there.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

There are twenty five people at a party, and two of them share the same birthday.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

Sir Peter Scott was a great believer in the Loch Ness monster and coined a new scientific Latin name for it, "Nessiteras rhombopteryx". A journalist pointed out that this name is in fact an anagram of "Monster hoax by Sir Peter S"

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

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A man in Australia lost his boat after its ropes broke during a storm. It drifted out to sea and was given up for lost. Around 8 months later a close friend found the boat, and recognised it immediately - on a deserted beach on the east coast of Madagascar.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

Violet Jessup survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Four years later she was on the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, when it also sank. She survived.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

A woman is looking through holiday pictures from when she is a child, and spots her now husband in the background of one, 15 years before they had even met. They had both been at that exact place at that exact moment.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else

20 out of 56 UK Prime Ministers were educated at the same school when they were children.

• Coincidence

• Statistically Probable

• Something Else