Nostradamus wrote 942 quatrains (4 line long poems) in his lifetime which he organised into centuries. Many people believe that he could predict the future and that these poems contain cryptic information about future events.

According to Sharon Challener, a professor of physics and astronomy, ancient people could have used the arrangement of pillars in Stonehenge to predict lunar eclipses.

Of the 26 people present at the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen, six perished within ten years. Of the ten who had witnessed the unwrapping of Tutankhamen's corpse, none died within that period.