The long-forgotten television show Second Chance aired on the fledgling Fox network from September to November, 1987. This bit from its pilot episode 24 years ago — that would be after Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi ordered a Berlin disco bombing that killed two U.S. servicemen, but before his henchmen blasted Pan Am 103 from the skies, killing 270 — makes a prescient claim: that Gaddafi would arrive at the Pearly Gates on July 29, 2011. Turns out the the show was only off by 83 days. TIME’s Nick Carbone riffs on the coincidence…
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