Do you ever feel that some things are just too impossible to happen? Like winning the lottery more than once or surviving multiple lightning strikes?
And yet, they do. Wayne Murray, for instance, won $10 million on two separate occasions, and Roy Cleveland Sullivan survived being struck by lightning seven times!
There’s even a subreddit, r/nevertellmetheodds, where people share incredible moments like these that make you wonder if fate had a hand in them.
Scroll down to see some of their most fascinating posts, and don’t miss our chat with Márton Balázs, Professor of Probability at the University of Bristol, who explains why these mind-bending events might be more common than you’d think.
#1 Unexpected Reunion
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#2 Photographer Prasenjeet Yadav Gets One In A Lifetime Shot Of Meteor By Accident
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#3 They Fit Together Perfectly
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#4 Rainbow Deflects Lightning
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#5 Lightning Hit Photographed At The Right Moment, By Debbie P
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#6 This Picture Of A Blackbird Catching A Ride On An Osprey’s Stick In Michigan By Jocelyn Anderson
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#7 Actor Sean Astin Photo Bombing Me In ‘93 At D.c. Inaugural Ball And Again 26 Yrs Later At Disneyland
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#8 A Fish Jumps Right In Front Of The Camera And Creates Funny Picture
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#9 Dragonfly Ate A Mosquito That Was About To Bite
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#10 In Palermo (Italy), A Citizen Went To The Police Station To Return A Credit Card Found On The Street. Within Minutes The Policemen Were Able To Trace The Identity Of The Card Holder: Harrison Ford
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#11 3 Generation Of Twins
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#12 Looks Like He Is Breathing Fire On A Sunset
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#13 Kummakivi Is A 500 000 Kg Rock In Finland That Has Been Balancing On Top Of Another Rock For 11 000 Years
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#14 Our Family Photo Taken With A Disposable Camera On July 4th, 2001 In Bishop, CA. We’ll Never Get A Better Christmas Card
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#15 Eagles On The Seattle Waterfront
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#16 What A Day To Be Drafted Into WWI
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#17 Thought I Was Out Of Tums
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#18 Tree Split, Fell, And Straddled A Car
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#19 There’s A Very Small Chance That A Roll Cloud Can Turn Into A Spherical Cloud, This One Was Observed In Japan 2016
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#20 Dude Meets Keanu Reeves 3 Years Apart, But Keanu Wears The Same Shirt
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#21 The Man Who Angered Thor
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#22 My Egg Perfectly Inverted Itself
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#23 Lightning Struck A Vent And Traveled Up Into A Toilet During A Thunderstorm
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#24 Grand Rapids, Mich.–Ben 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 Kilometres At About 80 Km/H And Survived Uninjured
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#25 Snorkeller Finds Lost Wedding Ring Wrapped Around A Mullet Fish Off Of Norfolk Island
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#26 This Is William West And William West And They Are The Reason Fingerprints Were Created To Find Criminals Because They Were Not Related At All, Shared The Same Exact Name And Looked Identical To One Another
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#27 Glasses Falling While Mountain Climbing, Getting Clicked At The Exact Moment
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#28 How This Pilot’s Plane Took A Hit
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#29 Almost Died This Morning On The Highway. Bounced From The Left Lane Up In The Air And Impaled My Windshield
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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 Perfectly Placed Web
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#32 I Captured This Shot Of A Sandhill Crane At The Exat Moment It Was Perpendicular To Me, So You Can See Straight Through Its Nostrils
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#33 Soldier Survives After 15,000 Ft Fall As Parachute Fails To Open Correctly In Us
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#34 Was Eating Orange Slices Until I Found Half Yellow And Half Orange Ones. Very Cool
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#35 This Sign Post Was Launched Into The Side Of My Apartment After A Drunk Driving Accident On My Street
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#36 Truck Goes Over Bridge, Is Saved By Safety Chains Hooked Up To RV
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#37 It’s The Only Logical Explanation
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#38 I’ll Never Kick A Ball Higher In My Life
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#39 These Horrible Injuries Are One Heck Of A Coincidence
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#40 Conjoined Eggs
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#41 Someone Parked Underground With Their Sunroof Open And A Pipe Burst Above Them
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#42 Found A Dog Toy That Is A Less-Spooky-Version Of My Husband’s Tattoo
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#43 Stray Bullet Hit My Door Handle
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#44 Was Swiping At The Dispensary When I Looked Up And Saw The Girl I Was About To Swipe On
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#45 I Got Summoned To State And Federal Jury Duty On The Same Day
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#46 Luckily For The People In The Truck, Their Search For A Lawyer Is Over Before It Began
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#47 A Customer Managed To Grab This Plush In Our Claw Machine Today, And This Is What Happened When It Went To Drop Down The Shoot
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#48 Getting A Speeding Ticket On Your Towed Car
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#49 Pigeon Perfectly Photobombs GF
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#50 Bird Nearly Pooped On My Niece
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