Thursday, February 12, 2009

Coincidence? Yep.

I get to work today and jump on the computer to check my email. I pull up the Google homepage and I see this:

Pretty. What's that? Oh, It's Charles Darwin's birthday? Wow, He'd be 200 years old if he was still alive. Impressive. I turn on the radio to get my morning dose of MPR. Guess what? It's also Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Barack Obama has blah blah blah to say about it. And you know what? He would be 200 years old as well. Any one else think this is wierd?

I headed over to Wikipedia to make sure this was true. Sure enough, Honest Abe and Daddy Darwin were born February 12, 1809. I wondered if there were any other links between the two. They both lead completely different lives and made revolutionary marks in completely different areas of all of our lives. Had they ever met? Are they twins, separated at birth?

Nope. Bummer. But this is cool:

2 comments:

An Experiment Gone Awry said...

i commend you on you ms paint skills, sir

Rusty Shakleford said...

I second the commendation.