Recently, u/Plus-Statistician80 asked "what statistically improbable thing happened to you?" Here are some of the best responses:
1. "Surviving a drowning having been gone for 12-15 minutes, resuscitated, two days on life support, lost a third of my bodyweight and walked out of the hospital less than a week later."
2. "Car was broken into, everything stolen including handbag in boot with wedding ring and engagement ring. Bag was found in a field weeks later and handed into police and we were called to see if it was ours. There had been a hole in the pocket where the rings were and they had fallen into it and were still there."
3. "I started playing World of Warcraft when it launched and I was living in California at the time. A year and a half later I moved across the country to a very small town in Tennessee. The kind where the population doubles when college is in session. I was playing the game and while waiting on a guild meeting the guildies started saying where they were from."
4. "I won $30,000 from a slot machine and paid off all my student loans that week."
5. "My son and I watched the eclipse in Wyoming on August 21, 2017. He asked when the next would be. Aside from the recent one in April 2024, we discovered there will be one in our hometown on August 12, 2045. He noticed that he would be about the same age on that date, as I was during the Wyoming eclipse. I was 41, and he will be 41 at the one in the future."
6. "Got attacked by a robin in the morning, then attacked by a hawk three hours later. Weird day."
7. "A car with the next license plate number parked next to me."
8. "Not me but my old neighbour, let's call him Jimmy. He and his wife decide to go on a once in a lifetime trip to Australia and New Zealand. At one point he's driving through a really remote part of New Zealand and his hire car breaks down. This was before mobile phones. No other cars on the road and just endless countryside around him."
9. "I was in the World Trade Center both times it got attacked...1993 and 2001. So guess what tourist attraction I will not visit? I am not giving them another shot at me."
10. "My favourite Chinese restaurant is in Ohio. Went to Hawaii. Tasted pepper steak at restaurant and mentioned to the owner it tasted the same as the one in Ohio. Owner was the brother of the owner of the Ohio restaurant."
11. "I gave birth to my daughter on my birthday. Roughly three years later, I gave birth to my son on his father's birthday."
12. "When I was on holiday as a kid in Ireland our car broke down going up a hill. A farmer came out and towed us back to the cottage we were staying at."
13. "Not me, but I had a phonecall with my grandma recently and she told me that she and her husband went on a trip the other day. They sat down on a table which they thought was free but a few moments later another couple the same age came through and said they already occupied the table but they could sit there together and drink coffee or something."
14. "On Reddit, someone found a camera memory card in Australia and posted some photos from it to help find the owner. The photos were of my co-worker in Los Angeles."
15. "Years ago I matched with someone on a dating site and we both discovered that we live in exactly the same suburb. That isn't the improbable statistic, what really blew our minds was when talking about our pets, we discovered that we both have a cat called Ramone, that we PREVIOUSLY named Ramona before realising weeks later after getting them that they were not infact female. Wild coincidence."
16. "My wife and I decided to watch a long movie in two sittings, pausing around the middle of the movie. Without trying I paused the movie at the exact half, right down to the second."
17. "I went to drop a friend for his job interview and got the job myself."
18. "Not me, but a friend married a guy named Joe. After they got married she moved into his house that he already owned. Years later they divorce and she moves out. Then a few years after that she meets and marries another guy named Joe who owns a house on that exact same street!"
19. "In Atlantic City several years ago, my husband hit $1000 on the slot poker machine. I hate gambling, but was bored, so I sat next to him and put some money into the poker machine, and hit $1000. This was within a couple minutes of him."
20. "I worked at a funeral home and was cleaning out the basement. Found an old photo of a newly wed couple that must've been left at a service, or left at a graveside and collected. The date on the back of the photo was the same day I found it, 60-some years later. Pretty wild but not unbelievable."
21. "My grandma and my uncle once used the same credit card to pay for gas within 30 minutes of each other and without having talked, they put in the same exact amount down to the cent. It wasn’t even preauthorised, it was something totally random like $47.83 or something. The bank thought it was an error so they removed one of the charges."
22. "My Jeep was stolen and then taken by the thieves to the gas station where I was working to fill up on gas."
23. "There’s a guy who works at a local pizza shop near us and has a Mustang that’s pretty recognisable from its paint job and decals. Me and the wife took a trip to Texas (seven states away from us) and we saw that Mustang in a parking lot. Pretty wild to think we both went on a trip at the same time to the same place and where at the same area."
H/T to u/Plus-Statistician80 and AskReddit for having this discussion!
Note: All submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
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