1: The year was 1990. Jim Carrey was a struggling young comic.

Sitting in his car high up in the Hollywood Hills overlooking the lights of Los Angeles, he took out his checkbook and wrote himself a check for $10 million. He dated it five years in the future: November 1995. In the notation, he wrote, “For acting services rendered.”  

Five years later, just before Thanksgiving of 1995, he … continue reading

1: A large passenger jet left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica. 257 people were on board. The year was 1979.  

“Unknown to the pilots, however, someone had modified the flight coordinates by a mere two degrees,” recounts famed German pilot Dieter Utchdorf in Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in 10x Is Easier Than 2x.

“This error placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of … continue reading