Coincidences?

The winter which thwarted Hitler's attack on Russia, thus keeping open the second front, thus costing him the war, was the longest and coldest in 250 years.

I'm sorry to remind you of the tragic murders at Dunblane, but an interesting fact emerged at the inquest. The psychopath who killed the kids had asked a child at the school about the daily routine. The boy said morning assembly (when the whole school was packed into the gym where the murders took place) started at 9:30. It actually ENDED at 9:30. The killer burst in on the gym class at 9:32.

When the naturalist Peter Scott was born (1909), the world's population was 1600 million. It is now 5000 million.

From an investment advice newsletter: 'One dollar invested in stocks in 1802 with all dividends reinvested would have accumulated into nearly $1,000,000 in nominal terms by 1991.' In real terms that's about $86,000. Not bad, but I'd hate to pay the capital gains tax ($24,000) if I wanted cash for the investments!