Top 10 Historical Predictions That Actually Came True
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Wanna hear some of the most accurate predictions of the future? Between Mark Twain predicting his own death would coincide with Halley’s Comet, H.G. Wells predicting the Atomic Bomb or John Elfreth Watkins Jr. foreseeing the invention of the Television, these are some of the most impressive predictions in history that turned out to be true. WatchMojo counts down ten predictions from the past about the future that actually came true!
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00:38 #10: The Atomic Bomb – H. G. Wells
01:29 #9: Television – John Elfreth Watkins Jr.
02:19 #8: The Periodic Table – Dmitri Mendeleev
03:03 #7: Debit Cards – Edward Bellamy
03:38 #6: Organ Transplants – Robert Boyle
04:22 #5: Mark Twain’s Own Death – Mark Twain
05:02 #4: Wi-Fi / Wireless Devices – Nikola Tesla
05:52 #3, #2 & #1 ???
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"No gravity in space"
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Titanic is not something to joke about
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Where is predicting that this channel is dead?
Wasn't number two actually the author adding more Titanic like elements in a re-release, to capitalize on the Titanic event?
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I guess super powers are real these guys were fuckin seein in the future
I guess super powers are real these guys were fuckin seein in the future
HG Wells "predicted" many things.
Aliens
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I predicted that this video was gonna go in order from 10-1
You can easily say some of these weren't predictions. The ones involving technology could have simply been people voicing an idea they had that they couldn't create with their current technology. Someone years later in a more tech savvy world read their idea, thought it was a good one and made it a reality.
otto von bismarck better be on here
You missed the main point. These all things are written in Quran Sharif.
#4 was a little off. Wireless did exist in 1909. Ever hear of Marconi Wireless?
Literally ran out of ideas
true story I wont look at a tv guide or anything and I just think about a movie or a episode of tv I have seen in while some times  and then hours later it is on TV that has happened so much so I guess some how people some times really can see a glimpse in the future
What WatchMojo didn't tell you is that theses people are all wizards and witches who are also 'Seers' from the Harry Potter Universe
Take the G away from H.G. Wells and add a R you get H.R. Wells i just made your day DC fans your welcome…
Titanic was an inside job.
Did anyone see the "Titanic" and the "Moon Landing" coming?
Bismarck and World War 1 with starting in the Balkans?
You should do top 10 prophecy's that came true in the bible. Good luck with that because there has been literally 1000's of prophecy's that have been fulfilled in the bible.
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John Meynard Keynes WWII?????
HR wells
The only one that's actually amazing is the periodic table
Historical predictions that came true?! Who's running out of ideas now, commenters?!
yea they're running out ideas
The way she pronounces Jules Verne makes me wanna die.
If they invented it (Mendeleev), how could they predict it. He more so predicted elements rather than the entire periodic table, which he invented.
After signing peace after the first world war in 1919 one of the leaders said the peace would only last 20 years, guess when Hitler invaded Poland…
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