50 COINCIDENCES THAT Ended Up Changing The Course Of History

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One of the best works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 1838, has a scene wherein the whole crew, after the accident of their ship, kills, cuts, and eats a cabin boy named Richard Parker. Around forty years later, cannibalism happened in real life when a large wave hit and destroyed the ship Mignonette. The victim? A boy named Richard Parker.