> 24 hours in a day . . . 24 cans in a case . . . coinkydink? I think
> not!
>
> "* In 1975, a man riding a moped in Bermuda was accidentally struck
> and killed by a taxi. One year later, the man's brother, riding the
> very same moped, was killed in the very same way by the very same taxi
> driven by the very same driver -- and carrying the very same
> passenger.
>
> * Twin brothers Jim Lewis and Jim Springer were separated at birth
> and adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both were
> named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both married women named
> Linda, both had a son they names James Alan, and both eventually
> divorced and got remarried to a woman named Betty.
>
> * Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and John
> Adams helped to edit and hone it. The Continental Congress approved
> the document on July 4, 1776. Both Jefferson and Adams died on July 4,
> 1826 -- exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of
> Independence.
>
> * A German mother who photographed her infant son in 1914 left the
> film to be developed at a store in Strasbourg, but was unable to
> collect the film picture when World War I broke out. Two years later
> she bought a film plate in Frankfurt, over 100 miles away, and took a
> picture of her newborn daughter -- only to find, when developed, the
> picture of her daughter superimposed on the earlier picture of her
> son. The original film, never developed, had been mistakenly labeled
> as unused and resold.
>
> * In 1858, Robert Fallon was shot dead by fellow poker players who
> accused him of cheating to win a $600 pot. None of the other players
> were willing to take the now unlucky $600, so they found a new player
> to take Fallon's place, who turned the $600 into $2,200 in winnings.
> At that point, the police arrived and demanded that the original $600
> be given to Fallon's next of kin -- only to discover that the new
> player was Fallon's son, who had not seen his father in seven years.
>
> * In the 19th century, the famous horror writer Egdar Allan Poe
> wrote a book called 'The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.' It was about
> four survivors of a shipwreck who were in an open boat for many days
> before they decided to kill and eat the cabin boy whose name was
> Richard Parker. Some years later, in 1884, the yawl, Mignonette,
> foundered, with only four survivors, who were in an open boat for many
> days. Eventually the three senior members of the crew killed and ate
> the cabin boy. The name of the cabin boy was Richard Parker.
>
> * In 1930s Detroit, a man named Joseph Figlock was to become an
> amazing figure in a young (and, apparently, incredibly careless)
> mother's life. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's
> baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken
> and Figlock and the baby were unharmed. A year later, the same baby
> fell from the same window, again falling onto Mr. Figlock as he was
> passing beneath. Once again, both of them survived the event.
>
> * In 1973, actor Anthony Hopkins agreed to appear in "The Girl
> From Petrovka", based on a novel by George Feifer. Unable to find a
> copy of the book anywhere in London, Hopkins was surprised to discover
> one lying on a bench in a train station. It turned out to be George
> Feifer's own annotated (personal) copy, which Feifer had lent to a
> friend, and which had been stolen from his friend's car.
>
> * In Monza, Italy, King Umberto I went to a small restaurant for
> dinner, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, General Emilio Ponzia-Vaglia.
> When the owner took King Umberto's order, the King noticed that he and
> the restaurant owner were virtual doubles, in face and in build. Both
> men began discussing the striking resemblance between each other and
> found many more similarities.
>
> 1. Both men were born on the same day, of the same year (March 14,
> 1844).
> 2. Both men had been born in the same town.
> 3. Both men married a woman with same name, Margherita.
> 4. The restaurateur opened his restaurant on the same day that King
> Umberto was crowned King of Italy.
> 5. On the 29th July 1900, King Umberto was informed that the
> restaurateur had died that day in a mysterious shooting accident, and
> as he expressed his regret, an anarchist in the crowd then
> assassinated him.
>
> * While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in
> Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood
> favorites -- Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book
> and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly
> remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on
> the flyleaf found the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street,
> Colorado Springs." It was Anne's very own book."