When you zoom out and take a look at the larger picture, you can start to feel like the luckiest person on planet Earth. Well, alongside everyone else. Depending on whom you ask, the odds of you existing as, well, you are something to the tune of 1 in 400 quadrillion… or even less. But the seemingly-magical run of coincidences doesn’t necessarily end there.
The news and the internet are full to the brim with stories of amazing streaks of luck, and tales about people surviving seemingly impossible odds, and they can make almost anyone start believing that Fate and guardian angels might not sound so silly after all. The probabilities are so small that it makes the events that much more impressive to behold. (Though, at the same time, we’ve got to be aware that extremely unlikely events happen all the time.)
Scroll down for some of the most extraordinary, super rare occurrences, as shared by internet users on the popular r/nevertellmetheodds, aka the ‘Nearly Impossible Odds,’ online group. Upvote your fave pics, and tell us all about the (un)luckiest things that ever happened to you in the comments, dear Pandas. And when you’ve enjoyed this list to the max, you should definitely consider checking out Bored Panda’s previous article about r/nevertellmetheodds right here. Happy scrolling!
Bored Panda got in touch with the moderator team behind the awesome r/nevertellmetheodds project, and they were kind enough to answer our questions. Check out what they had to say below. Meanwhile, also read on for Bored Panda’s chat about aiming for success, the importance of resilience, and forming good habits with fitness expert Dan Bacon, the founder of ModernX and The Modern Man. After all, you can’t rely on luck your entire life to get to where you want to be.
#1 She Found Her Cat 16 Days After A Tornado
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#2 96 Year Old Man Saves 87 Year Old Woman From Choking To Death Using The Heimlich Maneuver. That Man Is None Other Than Dr Henry Heimlich, The Inventor Of The Technique. What A Bada**
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#3 The Good You Do Always Finds Its Way Back
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#4 Cat Sitting The Exact Place
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#5 An Accidental Reunion
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#6 Filipino Fisherman Got Stuck On A Rock And He Decided To Bring It Home As A Good Luck Charm
And then he kept it under his bed for 10 years until one day his house burned down. then he found out this “rock” was actually the biggest pearl ever found and is valued at $100.000.000.
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#7 One Lucky Dude
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#8 Man Narrowly Avoids Being Crushed By A Tree Struck By Lightning: “I Felt Like Buster Keaton”
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#9 What A Cute Couple
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#10 A Fish Jumps Right In Front Of The Camera And Creates Funny Picture
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#11 Captured Shark Helps Solve Murder
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#12 Actor Sean Astin Photo Bombing Me In ‘93 At D.c. Inaugural Ball And Again 26 Yrs Later At Disneyland
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#13 They Were Talking About My Local Animal Shelter On National TV, And They Focused On Alys, The Cat We Adopted 7 Months Ago! We Got To See Where She Came From! We Were In Awe
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#14 The Same Injured Whale Photographed 35 Years Apart At The Coast Of Mexico
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#15 The Cat Had A Secret Life
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#16 Perfect Angle
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#17 Mind Blowing
Meet the Jim twins. Two identical twins separated and adopted to different families at birth. Both were named James, married and divorced women named Linda, remarried women named Betty, and each had a dog named Toy. They even both named their sons James Allan. They reunited at age 39.
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#18 Unexpected Reunion
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#19 Getting Photobombed By A Bee
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#20 Snorkeller Finds Lost Wedding Ring Wrapped Around A Mullet Fish Off Of Norfolk Island
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#21 Rainbow From Window Lines Up Perfect On Stove
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#22 Dude Meets Keanu Reeves 3 Years Apart, But Keanu Wears The Same Shirt
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#23 Carpenter Got The Ride Of A Lifetime When His Electric Wheelchair Became Lodged In The Grille Of A Semi-Trailer And Was Accidentally Pushed Down A Highway For Several Kilometers At About 80 Km/H And Survived Uninjured
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#24 3 Generation Of Twins
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#25 This Apartment Building In Shanghai Fell Over, And Remained Mostly Intact
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#26 The Man Who Angered Thor
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#27 Bubble Got Stuck On One Small Strand Of A Spiderweb
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#28 A Couple Found Each Other In The Same Childhood Photo Taken Years Before They Got Married
They lived 300 miles apart and were only on the beach at the same time because the boy’s family was vacationing there. they only interacted later in life when they found each other again.
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#29 It’s The Only Logical Explanation
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#30 In 1943, Ball Turret Gunner Alan Magee’s B-17 Bomber Was Hit By Flak And Began To Spin Out Of Control. He Fell Over Four Miles Without A Parachute Before Crashing Through The Glass Roof Of A Railroad Station. He Survived The Fall And Lived To Age 84
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#31 Two Brothers Won The Lottery On The Same Day
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#32 Wasps Made A Nest On My Anti-Wasps Spray Bottle
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#33 Perfectly Placed Web
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#34 Redditor Was Involved In A Hit And Run, But The Idiot Left Their Plate In Their Wheel
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#35 I Got A Pic Of My BF Falling Off A Floaty And Just Realized There Was A Guy Falling Off A Boat At The Same Time
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#36 This Fish Just Fell Out Of The Sky At The Dog Park – Dropped At My Feet By A Bald Eagle
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#37 One Of Our Chickens Just Laid A Jumbo Egg With Another Egg Inside
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#38 Truck Goes Over Bridge, Is Saved By Safety Chains Hooked Up To RV
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#39 I Unintentionally Smudged KFC Grease On A Reciept, Revealing A Redback Spider From An Ad On The Other Side. Heart Missed A Beat When I Took It From My Wallet
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#40 Evergreen Truck Getting Stuck In A Highway In China In The Same Way As It Happened For The Ship In The Suez Canal
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