35 photos that captured hilarious coincidences in real life

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But wouldn't it be cool if there was?

What a perfect scoop of vanilla ice cream.

A Redditor posted this photo of their dog, whose ear looks remarkably like its face — though not everyone was able to see the optical illusion.

Redditor lisarista posted this photo to the Oddly Satisfying Reddit thread, which makes sense — it's totally random, but nice to see the fox on the shirt meet its real-life mask counterpart.

Sandy Glovinsky, whose Twitter bio proudly states "Maybe the oldest Taylor Swift fan around," noticed that two trucks in front of him had aligned to form his favorite pop star's name — Taylor Swift herself.

A Reddit user noticed that a copper wire they were working with had an eerily human-like shadow. You can clearly see the nose, lips, and forehead.

A Redditor posted this helpful bolt of lightning, writing "wanted to get a quick pic when this kind lightning bolt appeared and pointed me towards my destination."

A Reddit user snapped a photo of their motorcycle's engine, only to notice that it looks like it has a face — and that it doesn't seem to be very happy.

A Reddit user shared a photo of this extremely fortunate coincidence. Instead of falling on top of the power lines and probably knocking out power for multiple homes, this tree arched over the lines, saving everyone from a giant headache.

A Redditor posted about her and her boyfriend meeting their couple doppelgängers at a beer festival.

The photo was shared to the Mildly Interesting thread on Reddit.

When this image was uploaded on Twitter with the caption "This photograph I took of this bird in the sunset looks so peaceful," it didn't take long for another Twitter user to share a different perspective — a rabbit flying through the air on skis.

A student at SUNY Brockport snapped a picture of the three girls sitting in front of him during class — all three happened to be wearing burgundy sweaters and have a similar hair color.

Staring at the back of the truck in front of you can be a boring task — unless you notice the world around you lining up perfectly, like Redditor Tomboski did.

Photographer Bennett Christiansen had been trying to get the perfect shot of lightning for a year before getting this pic.

This photo went viral on Reddit when his brother Jacob noticed the boat in the bottom left corner, aptly named "Perfect Timing."

According to a Reddit post, this brother and sister visited Italy together, and to commemorate their time there unknowingly bought each other puzzles of the same cliff-side village. The photos even look like they were taken from similar vantage points!

Known as the Unipiper, this Portland citizen is taking the city's slogan seriously.

Dude Chilling Park started as a funny art installation — and then was accepted by the city of Vancouver as a real city park.

While Facebook's "People You May Know" feature is decidedly creepy, it also works in mysterious ways. Samir Francois shared a screenshot on Reddit, showing that Facebook maybe could see that these two unrelated strangers' profile pictures would complete the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia.

This Instagram post went viral in 2016, when the internet couldn't decide if this pair of legs was just super shiny, or if they were just covered in paint.

According to Hunter Culverhouse, the person whose legs these are, the paint was a complete accident — and it took a couple of re-shares for the photo to go viral at all.

The Olympic rings are an iconic symbol around the world. But the rings experienced a little celestial help when the moon perfectly lined up with them.

A Redditor was hanging out at his friend's house, when he noticed that his friend's dad's dog perfectly blended in with the carpet.

Sadly, both Mario's and Luigi's have since closed down (you can see on Google Maps what's there now), but there was a time when you could imagine that Mario and Luigi retired and opened their own small businesses in Manchester.

With a plastic bag acting as a veil, these two water machines could be getting married. A Reddit user pointed the happy couple out at his office.

Originally posted in a "Mildly Interesting" Reddit thread, that's exactly what this is — until you check out this gif, which flips the faces and shows just how eerily similar these two women are.

When you're kissing as many babies as presidential candidates are, they can't all be winners.

Miss Jaded from the UK really captured this shot at the right time.

Originally, this was just a cute video of a dog playing with bubbles. But when paused at the right moment, it looks like Stella is floating inside a bubble.

Elephant sanctuaries are a popular way to safely interact with elephants. When these tourists helped cool off this gentle giant, the water they were throwing on it surprisingly fell in the same shape as the animal.

Maisie Williams, also known as Arya Stark on "Game of Thrones," picked up a card in Trivial Pursuit asking the name of Ned and Catelyn Stark's tomboy daughter — that's Arya!

These two look almost exactly the same. A Reddit user posted this photo of her son Julian with a book she was reading to him, because she noticed that he was almost identical to the little boy in the story.

That sign takes the term "redcoat" to a whole new level.

Reddit user ReWolvz thought that Mt. Adams in Washington was erupting — it is a potentially active volcano — but it was just a cloud that happened to be floating by.

This photographer was able to catch this Saudi man taking a selfie while his friends did what is called "sidewall skiing" — driving on two wheels.

Amazingly, the photographer was able to capture the selfie-taker appearing to "balance" the car on his head.