30 Statistically Improbable Things That Happened to People

‘I was born with a blood type completely different from my parents’
30 Statistically Improbable Things That Happened to People

Some odds are so unlikely that you never even consider the possibility of them happening. But they most certainly can. For instance, one Redditor has been bitten by a brown recluse spider on four separate occasions, while another pointed in the sky and said, “Look, a shooting star!” as a joke right before one actually appeared — two different times. 

Other Redditors have gathered together to brag about the highly unlikely things that have happened to them as well, and it seems like they’re a hodgepodge of the luckiest and unluckiest people on Earth.

TwinClover 6y ago At the hair salon lady next to me said her birthday. Her stylist said it was her kids birthday too. I excitedly told them that it was also my birthday. No one was nearly as excited as I was. 401 ...
Lanna33 6y ago My clinical instructor for OB in nursing school, was the OB nurse when I was born 32 years prior. 208 ...
MadcapRecap 6y ago My PhD viva was on Friday 13th. 13 weeks later I graduated, also on Friday the 13th. During the ceremony I was sitting in seat number 13. 2.1K ...
ActualWhiterabbit . 6y ago Three double yolks in a row. One of the better omlettes I made that day 792 ...
fuawont 0 1y ago My friend had two sets of monochorionic-monoamniotic twins--the rarest kind of twins--in back-to-back pregnancies. Identical twins that share the same amniotic sac and same placenta. Mono-Mono or MoMo twins happen in about 1% of identical twin pregnancies, and less than 0.1% of all pregnancies. 3.2K ...
dekion101 . 1y ago I received my heart transplant after being on the list for only 7 hours. 30K ...
Onion_4148 . 1y ago My dads birthday was 3-3, my brother is 6-6, mine is 7-7 and my son is 11-11. 10K ...
Perrin_Aybara_PL . 1y ago When I was a teenager I picked up a hitchhiker and then a few years later the same guy picked me up when I was walking after I ran out of gas. Never saw him before or after those two occasions. 1.9K ...
Icy_Document_7547 1y ago Went to a county fair and found a season pass on the ground with my name on it. 4 people in my area with the same name and I know 2 if them. What are the odds of that? 7.7K ...
clocks212 . 1y ago My wife and I (both right handed) had two left handed kids. Which has around a 1% chance of happening twice. 3.6K ...
InHouseDriveBy . 1y ago I've accidentally walked into a riot on 3 separate occasions in my life. 1.1K ...
perengana . 1y ago Correctly guessed all the numbers of the California Lottery 20 years ago upon arriving in my hotel room and turning on the TV at the drawing time.
Feeling_Wishbone_864 . 1y ago I was hit in a crosswalk 2x as a pedestrian by the same person. The incidents were 4 years apart and in different states. 406 ...
torhaze 1y ago My mom gave birth to me after sudden onset of labor at 37weeks and 6 days gestation, had a c-section because I was breech, born at 9:48 AM. I gave birth to my child after sudden onset of labor at 37weeks and 6 days gestation, had a c-section because my daughter was breech, born at 9:48 AM. Seems statistically improbable to me but maybe not super odd. 1.5K ...
Bigdan10 . 6y ago My twin and I are both 6'9.. making us both in the top 1% of people in the world based on height 163 ...
 6y ago I'm a triplet, but my other two wombmates didn't make it 2.4K ...
bedhed . 6y ago I had the same PIN number forever. Started a new job, and it was my desk's (4-digit extension) phone number. DAMNIT. 345 ...
Odogogod . 6y ago On a local tv news hour, I was in two different stories that were completely unrelated. 2.1K ...
 0 6y ago I just got back from a trip overseas. While staying in a random hostel halfway across the world, I met a guy who lives 2 blocks from me back home. 1.4K ...
jackiebx1 . 6y ago . Edited 6y ago Mother successfully got her tubes tied. I was still conceived.
Plethorian . 6y ago I opened my wallet to show my friends I had no monies; and a moth flew out of my open wallet. 4.8K ...
SmurfyX 6y ago I was standing by my car with a girl when I was about 19, and for literally no reason I pointed up at the night sky and said look, a shooting star! and in the exact place I pointed, zip, there one goes. She lost her shit as did I. About a year later, I said REMEMBER THAT TIME I MADE A SHOOTING STAR HAPPEN BY POINTING TO THE SKY LIKE THIS? and I did it, and it happened again. Shit was fuckin WILD 2.9K ...
mean_fiddler e 6y ago Got on a bus in Toronto and ended sitting next to someone who would spend the next year living across the street from me in Manchester UK 3.9K ...
tripppledenim 6y ago In a genetics class, we extracted and analyzed our mitochondrial DNA. I compared mine to the boy sitting next to me and we found out were cousins 1.6K ...
YonderlPonder 6y ago I have a fused tooth. I move around a lot and have had a lot of dentists. Dentists all lose their mind when they see it for the first time. I have to tell them how to log it into their system because most don't know what to do (consider one of the teeth missing for consistent records across dentist offices). 1.3K ...
ImTotallyNormalish 6y ago I was born with a blood type (type and rh factor) completely different from my parents. They thought I was switched at birth and did a paternity/maternity test on me. Turns out I'm just a freak 3K ...
minusthelela с 6y ago Have been bitten 4 separate times by a brown recluse spider. I once read I had a greater chance of getting struck by lightning than being bit my a brown recluse... so now I'm afraid of thunderstorms. 2.7K ...
negoiu14 . 6y ago My mom won a car in the 80s and another one in 2010 628 ...
cariface 6y ago My family and I drove from the Midwest to Alabama. While we were on the beach, my dad stopped a guy who was taking a walk. As it turns out, that guy and my dad were friends at the same Malaysian camp for south vietnamese refugees over forty years ago, and reunited by chance. 3.6K ...
DomBomm 6y ago H Decided I wanted to do an impulse holiday. So I went onto a random website, booked a random destination on the other side of the world on a random date with random people. One of those random people turned out to be a housemate from my first year at university. 617 ...

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