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15 Amazing Predictions That Actually Came True. Regardless of their significance, predictions excite people because what they tell of are things and events of the future.
Life is full of unbelievable events of great synchronicity. Are there really people whom can predict the future? Is there a benevolent force at play? Or is it simply just the law of large numbers. Whatever it is, there’s no denying that there have been countless, spookily accurate predictions made throughout history that have come true.
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Robert Boyle predicted transplantation of organs from one body to another. Sometime in the 1660’s, Robert Boyle predicted that in the future, the cure of diseases would be made by transplantation.
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Ezra Stiles predicted that the U.S. population would reach 300 million by 1983. In 1783, then Yale University president Ezra Stiles predicted that the population of the United States would reach 300 million in the next two hundred years. He based his prediction on his analysis of the population growth in Europe. Apparently, just a little over 200 years later, the population of the country actually hit 300 million.
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Jules Verne predicted the Apollo moon landing. More than a century before the Apollo 11, writer Jules Verne wrote in his book “From the Earth to the Moon” that a rocket would launch from Florida and fly to the moon. He predicted the name of the ship, Apollo.
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A short story predicted the sinking of the Titanic. A short story entitled “Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan” written by Morgan Robertson in 1898, detailes how the largest ship ever made in history crashed into an iceberg and sank. 14 years later, the RMS Titanic was launched and sank under exactly the same circumstances.
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Nikola Tesla predicted personal wireless devices. In a statement he gave to The New York Times in 1909, Nikola Tesla predicted that it would soon be possible to transmit messages via personal devices. Today, we have wireless communication devices that we bring anywhere we go.
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H.G. Wells predicted the atomic bomb. In his novel entitled “The World Set Free”, H.G. Wells predicted that a city-destroying atomic bomb would destroy lives in the future. 18 years since he wrote the book, the atomic bomb was launched through the Manhattan Project.
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Nostradamus predicted Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise in power. Nostradamus predicted that a man named Napoleon Bonaparte would rise in power, though the name was something like “Napaulon Roy.” According to his prophecy, the man would be one of the most important figures in history and would deny the Piuses entry. As it turned out, during Napoleon’s time, Pope Pius VI and VII were locked up.
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Nostradamus predicted the death of Princess Diana. Nostradamus predicted that “Diana’s life would be taken.” At that time, nobody knew who Diana was. In 1997, Princess Diana of Wales died from a fatal car accident.
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John Elfreth Watkins Jr. predicted the television. Mr. Watkins made predictions in the year 1900. In his article “Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.”
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Edward Bellamy Predicted credit cards. In the novel “Looking Backward” published in 1887, Edward Bellamy accurately predicted the use of credit cards 63 years before they were even invented.
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Jonathan Swift predicts two moon on Mars. In his popular novel “Gulliver’s Travels” published in 1726, Jonathan Swift claimed that Mars had two moons. This was 142 years before they were actually discovered
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Jeffrey Palmer predicted volcano eruption, tsunamis, and Hurricane Katrina. Palmer predicted the volcanic eruption and tsunamis in Sumatra on December 26, 2004. He also became famous for his accurate prediction of the Hurricane in 2005 which claimed almost 2,000 lives in the United States.
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Jeane Dixon predicted the assassination of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Astrologer Jeane Dixon became known after she predicted the death of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Because of her accurate predictions, she was the one First Lady Nancy Reagan went to for advice during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
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Mark Twain predicted his own death. Writer Mark Twain was not a prophet but many people were amazed after he accurately predicted his death. In one of his books, he wrote that he was born in 1835, when Halley’s Comet was visible. He predicted that he would die when the same comet would be visible again. Sure enough, he died in 1910 when Halley’s Comet reappeared in the night sky.
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Edgar Cayce predicted the shifting of the Earth’s poles. In an interview in 1936, Cayce was asked what great change was to take place in the earth between 2000 and 2011 A.D. Cayce answered that the poles of the earth would shift. Between 2000 and 2001, NOVA confirmed that the shift actually happened in the South Atlantic Ocean region.