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The chances of running into someone that you know or someone that you have mutual friends or acquaintances with on another side of the world were probably once much scarcer than they are now. In fact, running into someone at a famous landmark in a faraway country is quite possible. Or finding mutual connections while being away from your base with strangers that you haven’t met before is also more than likely to happen. Six degrees of separation is real, and so are the stories that Twitter users shared in response to Michael Redmond’s post about being asked by a random taxi driver if he knows Sean Corcoran, after hearing his Dublin accent. And well, he knew him.

Michael Redmond, who goes by @redmondmichael1 on Twitter, is known for his role in the now probably classic Irish TV series Father Ted, where he portrayed Father Stone. His post has received over 367k likes and more than 1.8k comments at the time of writing. We have handpicked the most serendipitous stories that prove how small the world actually is, so vote for your favorite ones.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol you thought they were just being daft didn't you...but little did you know...Lol

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I took a tour of Chichen Itza, small random group of perhaps ten folks. Mostly other people from the States, couple of Europeans. At one point we went around the circle and said where we were all from. One lady said my state, so I asked her what area. My area. What town? My town. She lives behind my library and I see her at the grocery store sometimes!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Years ago in a very out of the way B&B in Scotland, my husband, a high school teacher, was sitting at breakfast with the host family (I was back in the room). He tells me later that the teenage daughter had a pen-pal in America. Oh? Where? At the very same California high school he had taught in! For context: There are approximately 26,700 high schools in the US!

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Natalia A
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Happens a lot in Cyprus! You're bound to have someone in common!

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Anna Repp
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stories like this make me sad. I have prosopagnosia and have a hard time even recognizing my family and close friends. I will never recognize someone I've met once, even if they changed into shorts from jeans in front of me :)

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked at a restaurant in a small village somewhere in Germany, as a waiteress. The owner was Iranian, like myself. His uncle came to visit from Sweden and immediately we knew we had seen eachother before. Turned out he was the former owner of the stationery store I used to buy my school supplies from, in Tehran.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of us never get the chance to cut somebody after years have gone by even though we dream of it.

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Seán Baron
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Would that have been the Christmas episode with Katherine Jenkins I wonder?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got a job photographing at a convent and school (photo of students doing lessons and such) and was chatting with the equivalent of the Mother Superior of the order. She asked me about my last name, where my dad was from etc. Then she asked if I knew Bill [Lastname] and I told her he was my uncle, to which she replied that she had dated him in high school. Of course i had to say well, at least my Uncle Bill could take comfort in that he lost her to a better Man.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the West Indes, someone said "Oh, you are from Canada! Do you know" and we all immediately thought "What kind of island does he think Canada is?" Then, he said the name, and dad replied "Yes."

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