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35 Wild Pics That Caught Some Crazy Coincidences

For about as long as we've been alive, we've been trying to figure out exactly how the world works. Does everything happen for a reason or is anything that can't be traced to someone's actions just randomly occurring?

We may each have our own ideas as to which seems more likely but we may never truly know the answer to this question. And it gets even harder to answer when we're faced with some of the world's weirder coincidences.

But whether the people on this list were just incredibly lucky or fulfilling their destinies, their situations definitely left us with more questions than answers.

At first glance, it's hard to tell what's even happening to this fly.

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However, even seeing it can make it a little hard to believe that it managed to impale itself on a plant.

Nonetheless, it seems that's exactly what happened here because even a shrike would have a hard time doing that job in this case.

For this picture, the uploader happened to get an unexpected taste of what it looks like during an eclipse.

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While actual solar eclipses occur as a result of the moon coming between us and the sun, this photographer's mini-eclipse can obviously be traced to a hot air balloon blocking the sun out for them.

It's not often that a tree falls above your vehicle and you actually feel lucky but I can't imagine this person feeling any other way.

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As we can see here, intense winds happened to snap the tree in just the right place to narrowly avoid any contact with this truck.

"I'm not touching you."

Although we appear to have a real-life rainbow road here, it won't be there for long.

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That's because we're looking at the result of the sun hitting a freshly-paved road at just the right angle to create this dazzling display when shot through polarized lenses.

If one of these girls hadn't noticed some similarity between them, neither would have ever learned how their stories intertwined since the beginning.

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As NBC News reported, a friend of Anaïs Bordier saw Los Angeles-based actor Samantha Futerman in a YouTube video and noticed they looked remarkably similar.

After Bordier contacted Futerman in 2013, both learned that they were identical twin sisters who were separated at birth and adopted by parents in completely different countries.

They say it's good luck when it starts raining on your wedding day so I hope a volcanic eruption has the same effect on a couple's fortunes.

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Because that's exactly what this wedding party faced when Taal Volcano in the Philippines picked this moment of all moments to blow its top.

As the Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn once said, "There's always a bigger fish."

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But it turns out his philosophy isn't just limited to fish as even that bigger fish was clearly surprised when this crocodile found itself a two-for-one meal deal.

A car getting its windshield smashed by a cricket ball is simply unfortunate. But in this case, it's a wild and weird coincidence.

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That's because — as this tweet explains — the car happened to belong to the very man who knocked the ball out of the park.

Incidentally, I didn't know this was a hazard that baseball and cricket had in common.

While this may not be a big coincidence in terms of scale, it's still an incredibly unlikely one.

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When one of this passenger's earbuds dangled from its partner, it happened to form the shape of a treble clef.

If this person is watching a music video and not a nature documentary or something, then that's a particularly wild coincidence.

Apparently, this is a pretty common problem in Australia.

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We know that magpies are attracted to the shinier things in life and many cyclists have found that this includes their bike helmets.

Even so, it's still quite an accomplishment to capture a photo before this man has even realized the magpie nipped at his ear.

This photo goes a long way to explain how Lt. Edwin Wright earned the nickname "Lucky."

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As the American Air Museum explained, the flak happened to hit his propeller in precisely the right spot to avoid bringing his plane down.

As they put it, "If the shell had deviated an inch and a half either side, his blade would have severed and he would have been brought down."

This is about as eerie as a locker combination gets but random selections can sometimes land on important numbers.

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And that reality has left this person with a combination that clearly indicates the exact date of 9/11.

At least they're not likely to forget it.

It's not so crazy for a leaf to blow onto a camera lens but this one had some outrageous timing.

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This couple was all ready to take a timed photo while they were out on a hike and the leaf showed up at just the right time to wreck it.

I'm not sure it's possible to time a photobomb this well on purpose.

Although it would take some well-timed photography to capture this phone just as it was falling out of this person's pocket, that's not what's going on here.

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Instead, we're witnessing the phone barely hang on by a thread after it slipped out of one of the many holes in these jeans.

Someone making this mistake isn't a coincidence but we can definitely start paying attention when five different people make the exact same mistake.

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Considering how often this apparently happens, I suppose it shouldn't be so surprising that a "missent to Austria" stamp exists.

Although even the postal employees seem pretty embarrassed that it happened to the same package five times in a row.

Here we can see that two different drivers have the same uncanny bad luck.

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If you're wondering what exactly happened here, that SUV fell out of the second story of this parking garage only to land on the one car that happened to be parked outside.

Sheesh.

One Fourth of July celebration got particularly exciting for those who decided to visit Mount Rushmore.

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As we can see, a clear day was suddenly interrupted by bolts of lightning. And the fact that we can see that means this photographer got extremely lucky.

As this person put it, "This fork I got with my meal reminded my of my crooked pinky [*sic*]."

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Seriously, what are the odds that this fork would turn out to be warped in the exact way to mirror this person's subtle condition?

Spotting an albino deer is already rare enough so I couldn't even tell you the astronomical odds of spotting three of them at once.

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However, it's worth noting that it's apparently unclear as to whether these deer are actually albino as opposed to leucistic or belonging to some obscure breed of white deer.

After all, it's not like deer usually wait around long enough to examine their eyes.

Catching the reflection of a ceiling fixture in the window casts a whole new light!

Window reflections are nothing new, but there's something cool about this. Like Earth did some interior decorating changes and installed a new sun.

The price goes up as the naval ranking goes down.

This just proves that promotions aren't always what they're cracked up to be.

And the pricing seemed fitting, as most of the comments were filled with people celebrating Sailor Jerry.

This rainbow seemingly continued right into the one in the ad.

Fast food advertising has gotten really involved lately, they even have collabs with Mother Nature.

Someone snapped a picture of a crow mid-blink, creating this eerie result.

Now this looks like an omen if I've ever seen one.

This is also likely the nictitating membrane, a form of lid used by birds to keep their eyes moist while not blocking their vision!

The size of the moon through the rock formation creates the perfect image of an eye.

This photo sparked some debate in the comments regarding its legitimacy, with most settling on the fact that it is real, but the use of some fancy camera lenses blew up the size of the moon to create the full effect.

Hanging on by a thread.

Whoever was drinking out of this glass had the luckiest break of their life, literally. Nearly avoiding a full-on shatter, one has to wonder what exactly happened to cause this.

In one fated box of pasta was this joined, double length, curved noodle.

All the people who break their pasta in half looked at this as a single tear rolled down their cheek. The thought that they'd have to break one piece into quarters...heartbreaking.

Inside the markings on this cat is another, smaller cat.

This is like a buy-one-get-one deal, but you don't have to worry about extra food or anything else.

When examining their carrots, this user found one that looked just like a finger.

As someone who doesn't enjoy many vegetables, at least here I'd have an excuse to not want to eat it.

In a very lucky shot, this uploader caught a ring of fire coming from a 44 magnum his friend was shooting.

I really thought this was a circle drawn onto the image to point something out. I spent longer than I'd like to admit trying to find what I was supposed to be looking at.

With the perspective here, the snail on this driver's windshield looks like a giant one crossing the road.

If you thought waiting for a train to pass by was slow, imagine getting stuck behind this guy.

Seeing a fortune reference another fortune is far from common.

So even fortune cookies are starting to realize fortune cookies are bogus?

When looking back at childhood items, this user found a rock that's filled with tiny fossilized shells.

Most of us will be lucky to ever find one fossil in our lives, let alone tens of them sitting inside the palm of our hand!

It shouldn't be difficult to see why this person was a little disappointed by their recent corn harvest.

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Somewhere along the lines, this ear got so little pollination that it was only able to grow a single kernel.

That doesn't exactly make for a satisfying side dish.

In an apparent battle, this tree is growing around a palm tree, which you can see sprouting out of the top in the center.

It was guessed that this was a strangler fig, a tree that specifically attacks other trees by growing around them and taking all their sunlight.

Like looking in a mirror, this person noticed that they have the exact same spoon used on this box of cereal.

That means your spoon is a model! You could be its agent, get it some more cereal box gigs, maybe even soup cans.

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