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On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

In 1907, the three cruise ships built by White Star Shipping not only looked similar, but also suffered the same experience. Britannia sank due to an explosion hitting a mine; the Titanic, which sank into an iceberg; and the Olympic, after colliding with a warship, was refurbished into a troop carrier and eventually disintegrated.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

Violet. Jessope is a paramedic, also known as "Ms. Never Sink." She experienced three shipwrecks on the Olympic, Titanic, and Britannia, but survived.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

Mark Twain was born in 1835, coinciding with the time when Halley's Comet was very close to the Sun. He had predicted that he would die on the day Halley's Comet reappeared. In 1910, when the comet was very close to Earth, he actually passed away.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

In 1914, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in a car with license plate A III-118, which is believed to be the trigger of World War I. The end of World War I coincided with November 11, 1918 (the English language is written as day, month, year 11.11.18).

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

The tombstone of John Parr, the first British soldier killed in World War I, is opposite the tombstone of George Ellison, the last British soldier killed in World War I.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

The 27 Club, whose members are artists and actors who died at the age of 27. Composer Alexander Levy was the first member, followed by Brian Jones, Jimmy Hamdricks, Janice Japlin, Jim Morrison, and the latest addition was Anton Yeltsin, who died in 2016 at the age of 27.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

Lewis and Springer were twins who were adopted by different families at birth. Thirty-nine years later, they were surprised to find that they had very similar lives: a dog named Toy; the same divorce after marrying a girl named Linda, remarried a girl named Betty; driving the same model of car and smoking the same brand of cigarettes.

On closer reflection, history is always strikingly similar!

Old photographs from 1920 and 1941 have revealed a man in military uniform very similar to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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