Numerical Coincidence

3 pages on this site touch on this topic.

• Lincoln and Kennedy: the viral list, checked — The most famous coincidence list in America mixes a few real, checkable facts with several claims that are false, exaggerated, or manufactured after the fact.
• The novel that "predicted" the Titanic — A 1898 novella about an unsinkable liner hitting an iceberg predates the Titanic by 14 years — but its famous matching numbers are from a later edition.
• Winning the lottery twice: the New Jersey case — A clerk won two lottery jackpots four months apart in 1985–86 — reported as 1-in-17-trillion odds, until statisticians asked the right question.