Truth is stranger than fiction is an overused cliche, there is no denying that. In this case I am going to let it slide because some of these stories are so unbelievably strange that you would have to think of them as urban legends, they're not though, they are true.
1. Similarities between the Lincoln and JFK assassinations.
There are several eerie similarities between these two presidential assassinations, even though they took place over 100 years apart. Seriously, we can't make this stuff up.
1. Both JFK and Lincoln were shot in the back of the head, on the Friday before a major national holiday, and both were sitting next to their wives.
2. Both had Vice-Presidents with the last name Johnson: Andrew born in 1808 and Lyndon born in 1908. Both Johnsons' had two daughters.
3. Both assassins had three names for combined total of 15 letters a piece.
4. John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and fled to a warehouse. Lee Havey Oswald shot Lincoln from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
We aren't grasping at straws here, this is some strange stuff.
2. One man survived both the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic blasts
Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip when the U.S. dropped the first bomb, he suffered fairly severe burns but was able to return home to Nagasaki. Days later the U.S. dropped the second bomb and he managed to survive that as well.
Talk about having a bad week.
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