18 JAN 2024
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Joan R. Ginther won lottery not just once, but four times! Her life was turned upside down when she won an incredible $5.4 million and then $2 million more ten years later. That's not where it ends. She earned $3 million two years later, and an incredible $10 million in 2008!
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Tsutomu worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries during the Second World War. The first nuclear bomb landed on Hiroshima in 1945, while he was there on business. Despite being hurt by the explosion, Blessed was able to live.
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Unexpected events can occur at any time. It was the terrible moment Australian Bill Morgan's automobile collided with a truck in an accident, leaving him crushed. Even after his family turned off the life support, he miraculously survived more than 14 minutes after going into a coma and emerged after 12 days. Absurd? It doesn't end there. He purchased a "Scratch It" card in honour of his newfound life and won a $27,000 automobile!
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Frane Selak, a Croatian, is regarded as the luckiest man to have ever lived. He defied death an incredible 7 times! The first of Selak's near-death experiences occurred in January 1962 when the train he was riding on fell off the rails and into an icy canyon river.
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It's common knowledge that you can feel what's going to happen in the near future with your intuition. However, how would one explain Maarten de Jonge's case—a Dutch cyclist? Two times in four months, Maarten avoided death! He was supposed to go on flight MH370 in March 2014, the aeroplane that vanished and was never discovered. In addition, he had reserved a seat on the MH17 plane, which ultimately crashed, only to have it rescheduled at the last minute.
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Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat. “It’s shocking how little colour people see in their lives.” Says Antico. The fact that she’s the only one (one of the handful) in the entire world who sees the world a lot more vividly than the others, makes her a really lucky person. When she looks at a leaf, she sees much more than just green. “Around the edge I’ll see orange or red or purple in the shadow; you might see dark green, but I’ll see violet, turquoise, blue,” she said. “It’s like a mosaic of color.”
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An assassination attempt should astonish you when millions of people in your country love and detest you equally. However, according to estimates from Cuba's counterintelligence service, Fidel Castro has escaped more than 630 assassination attempts! Sixty-three. Many, many others, including his own mistress and the U.S. CIA, were involved in the planning of some of these.
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Nichiren was a prominent 12th century monk who was sentenced to execution for having written a prophecy that the Japanese authorities felt was subversive, and undermining their power. As pure luck would have it, Nichiren managed to escape his own beheading when the executioner was struck and killed by a lightening bolt when he raised his sword.
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