<p>A few minutes ago, I was reading "Fermat's Enigma" by Simon Singh (it is a great read by the way). I came to a section about the Wolfskehl prize, and as I read the details of the contest, I came to the following passage:</p>
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If the prize is not awarded by 13 September 2007, no ulterior claim will be accepted.
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<p>And I was like "Hold up - isn't that today?"</p>
<p>Such an amazing coincidence.</p>
<p>buy a lotto ticket.</p>
<p>i read that book. It was an excellent read. Very interesting. Oh, and yes, that is a freaky coincidence. lol</p>
<p>I think it's funny also because the book was sitting in my house for almost a decade, and I just happened to pick it up so close to that date.</p>
<p>Lame. /<em>fgfg</em>/</p>
<p>Stuff like this isn't that amazing.</p>
<p>A couple years ago we were looking at a Spanish textbook and saw the teacher as a teenager in the street in one of the textbook photos. Also there was a poster on the side of a building in Spanish in another photo that had the same date on that day but 20 years ago. Which is probably pretty lame too, but it's kinda weird to see a younger version of your teacher in an old textbook . . . like she was destined to teach spanish or something.</p>
<p>Woah, schrizto thats the biggest cionincidence I ever read.</p>
<p>wait, did your spanish teacher tell you guys that or was it obvious to you guys?</p>
<p>Yeah, kids, watch out for random photographers in the street because then you might appear in an English textbook in a foreign country someday (with embarassingly poofy 80s/early 90s hair, to boot).</p>
<p>Her young son was flipping through the textbook and exclaimed that he saw his mom in there. And then she looks and it's her and her friend in the street in Spain or something. It wasn't a far-away shot either, but an up-close one so you could recognize her pretty quickly.</p>
<p>Makes you wonder what happened to all the people in the textbook photos.</p>
<p>^ Wow, i am going to tell my spanish teacher that! haha</p>
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wait, did your spanish teacher tell you guys that or was it obvious to you guys?
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<p>She came to school one day, "Hey everyone, turn to page ___!"</p>
<p>schrizto, that's really amazing. </p>
<p>A fact about mine I forgot to mention - that text I quoted was from 1908. The timescale is what made it amazing.</p>