As students join your group today, share a surprising but true event that happened to you. If you do not have a story, feel free to share one or both of the following true examples that happened to friends of this Real Life Downloaded lesson author, provided here:
- A widowed young man sought out a female companion online only to find that she and his deceased wife had at one time been bridesmaids together at a wedding of a mutual friend.
- Two high school friends who hadn’t seen each other in 20 years realized on a road trip that they were both pumping gasoline next to each other at a gas station in a state where neither of them lived…but both of them just happened to be passing through on a family vacation!
If time permits, invite your students to share surprising stories of their own with the rest of the group.
The following video clip is about surprising facts that are hard to believe. They are true though. We’ll discuss later about what was hardest to believe!
Share the following video [3:49]:
25 Unbelievably Hard to Believe Facts
- What hard-to-believe fact did you find most surprising? (Answers will vary.)
Learning surprising facts is just that: Surprising! Let’s take a look at the most surprising fact of all time!