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Have you ever met a stranger with your birthday and your thinking, "What are the chances?" Or maybe you heard about someone you know to be struck by lightning and I could not really believe their bad luck. In fact, there are many events that occur quite often, but we think we are extremely unlikely. What followssurprising facts You will help define the right disk: Here are 50 "rare" events that occur all the time. And for more than one trivial blowing well, check these50 absurd facts that will make you interview all.

Although a total solar eclipse can look like an experience once in a life, they are not terribly rare. According to Space.com, "it's a popular misconception that the phenomenon of a total sun eclipse is aRare occurrence. On the contrary. About once every 18 months (on average) a total solar eclipse is visible from somewhere on the surface of the Earth. And for more misconceptions to dispel,50 "well known" facts that are actually common myths.

Make sure you go inside the next time a storm rolls in, becauseBe struck by lightning is not so rare. The chances of being struck in your life are 1 out of 3,000, according toNational Geographic. Fortunately, the National Meteorological Service reports only 10% ofPeople who are struck by lightning are killed.

The shooting stars occur when small rocks in space face the atmosphere of the earth and burn in a flamboyant display of light. And although it may seem like that does not happen every day, it happens in fact a few timesEvery hour. According to the Astronomy Department of Cornell University, you can expectSee a shooting star Every 10 to 15 minutes when they are stargazing in clear heavens. And for more trivia to entertain you, try these35 fascinating quick facts for when you're bored.

You might think that volcanic eruptions are incredibly rare events that would note the world. But it happens, there is typically on50 to 60 volcanoes that burst each year On earth (this is about each week). Part of the reason these rashes seem rare is that it is almost never the massive type we see on television and cinema. In many cases, it is difficult to identify even the beginning and end of an eruption.

"Once in a blue moon" makes the event ring particularly unlikely. But a blue moon - which is when two complete moons fall in the same month or when an extra full moon takes place during a single season - in factoccurs about 2.5 years, according to NASA.

More people live at 100 than ever before. According to a 2011 report of the U.K department. for work and pensions, 20 years old today aretwice as likely to reach 100 Like their parents and three times more likely than their grandparents. The report also noted that girls born in 2011 have a chance to live 1 out of 3 to 100, while boys have a chance of 1 out of 4. And for more good news, check these50 Feel-good facts guaranteed to make you smile.

Meet someone with the same birthday as you are always exciting, but it's not really rare. In fact, it is almost guaranteed to occur in certain circumstances. "Mathematicians call it 'The birthday problem, 'And they usually exercised it like this: the size of a group of people you need to assemble before there is 50 to 50 chances that two people share the same birthday? "Ana Swanson explainThe Washington Post.

"If you assemble a group of 366 people, there is a 100% likelihood that two people will have the same birthday because there are only 365 days a year, excluding years of bonds," says she. "But probability is always almost certain with a much smaller group than that." In a group of 60 people, it is extremely likely that two people share a birthday.

There may be a greater reason to fear your birthday than just as you get older. A 2012 study published in theAnnals of epidemiology found that people are14% more likely to die at their birthday only on another day of the year. And although there are some theories as to why this is the case, there is no clear cause. And for more shocking trivia, here is here50 absurd facts that sound.

Remains assured thatTo be in an aircraft accident is rare. "If you take a flight a day, you would need on average flying every day for 55,000 years before being involved in a deadly accident," M.i.t Statistician Sloan SchoolArnold Barnett told ABC News.

But if you have to be involved in an aircraft accident, survive amore likely than you could have believed. Rates, the survivability rate is an incredible 95.7%, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

You may want to hold the rail on the stairs, put a carpet in your shower and stay away from the cliffs. It's because we all have a1 of 218 chance to fall to our deaths, according to the National Security Council. And for more fascinating content delivered directly into your inbox,Sign up for our daily newsletter.

You probably meet someone who can not see the whole spectrum of color at least once a week.Color blindness affects about 1 on 12 man and 1 of 200 women.

From about 1915 to 1980, about 1 millions of 50 was a twin, a rate of 2%, according toAtlantic. In 1995, this rate was 2.5% and 2010, it was 3.3%. It means that nowadays,1 of 30 babies is a twin.

Parents explains that "two-thirds of the increase are probably due to theIncreasing use of the IVF, "while the rest is" mainly attributed to an increase in the average of women of age, "givenOlder women are more likely to conceive twins.

We all know that babies do not tend to arrive exactly when they are due. Sometimes small ones can not wait to make a big debut. That's why, according to an Australian study of the data collected between 2000 and 2011 - published in the journalBMJ Open In 2018-4.6 In each 1,000 babies were born before their moms go to the hospital.

Most people both have five fingers on each hand and five toes on every foot. But being born polydactyl, as it is technically called, is it not that rare. In the USA,1 of 500 to 1,000 babies has an extra finger or toe, according to the children's hospital of Boston.

Are you right-handed or left-handed? Or are you a bit of both? According to the American Psychological Association,1 of 100 people It was born with "true" amidexterity, which means that they have no dominant hand at all.

MoreBabies get their first tooth Between four and six months. However, there are cases when a newborn arrives with teeth. Almost almost4 million babies are born In the United States, each year, according to disease control and prevention centers (CDC),1 of 2000 From these little ones are born with what is called "natal teeth".

Only humansNeed a kidney to survive. As such, it is possible that a baby is born without any zero complications. According to the Colorado Children Hospital, this condition-known as renal agenis - occurs in about1 of 3000 to 4,500 births And is more common in boys.

Although only 1 of the 17,000 to 20,000 people are born with albinism in Europe and the United States, it is much more common in other places around the world. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, the condition affects1 of 5,000 to 15,000 people, according to the World Health Organization of the United Nations. In some groups, up to 1,000 to 5,000 babies are born albinism.

Although humans are born with tails are not exactly common, it's alsonot incredibly rare That is. There were 23 cases of true vestigial tails reported since 1884. According to theAnnals of plastic surgery"Vestigial tails contain adipose and conjunctive tissues, blood vessels and nerves and are covered with skin. OS, cartilage, notchord and spinal cord elements are lacking."

Many people have dreamed of learning that they areSecretly royal. And it turns outThey are probably, according toScience.

Consider that if you go back to 30 generations, you have omnipriated ancestors of $ 1.073 billion. "There were fewer people on the planet to have been descended today, [then], you can easily see howpretty much everyone is linked to royalty At one point, "explains IFL science.

While winning a massive jackpot could be unlikely, it's actually quite common to win one of the lowest prices. "Real money is made in the trenches of the Pick-3, Pick-4 and Pick-5" game, "Steve Player, a lottery expert, saysStrong. The player says he has won two great jackpots, the Lotto of New York Pick-6 and Florida Fantasy five, as well as prizes in 27 states while also holding the archives for the highest payments of a day on Pick -3 and pick-4 numbers. That's all to say, it's clearlynot all this rare WIN GREAT.

Already seen when you feel like you relive a time when you can not quite place - is estimated to happen in60 to 80% of the population, according to the research of the Texas University A & M. as theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry Notes, "the already seen experience is acommon phenomenon. It has been defined as an inappropriate subjective impression of the familiarity of a current experience with an indefinite past. "

While two-head animals are "still rare enough to surprise us", they arenot really everything that rare, according to ABC News. "This catchy development anomaly, known as bicephalie or dicephalia, is a phenomenon that has been around 150 million years ago," reports the press release. And there were cases involving many creatures, bull snakes, turtle sharks and kittens shrimp.

There are many things we still do not know the earth - and this includes how many other creatures live with us. An article in 2011 published inPLOS Biology revealed that "some86% of existing species on earth and 91% of the ocean species are still waiting for the description. Although it may seem like a discouraging percentage, we find these species at an incredible rate.15,000 to 20,000 new species are cataloged each year, according to the BBC.

Hitting a home home may not be an easy business for the average athlete, but it becomes more and more common in the big leagues. According to SB Nation, "balls fly parks to aregistration rates. "They report that MLB baseball players have established a record in May 2019 with 1,135 domiciliations, then beat this record the next month with 1,142 ways at home.

The next time you head to the ballpark, make sure you take your glove with you. It turns out that your chances of catching a coarse bullet are pretty good:1 in 835 to an MLB game. A lucky fan even caughtTwo big bullets in a row During the 2018 Oakland A match.

Everyone is not physically or mentally capable of reaching the summit of Mount Everest - but it turns out that many people are. In reality,so many climbers Attempt to tackle the tremendous exploit in 2019 that there were deadly traffic jams on the mountain. The Tourism Department of Nepal indicated that in the spring season,563 climbers of 39 different countries have reached the summit successfully On the side of Nepal.

When we see that a book is aNew York Times Best Seller, you might think it's part of a group of elite literature. But write a book that ends on the covetedTimes The list is more common than you could have imagined. Whip statisticsGREGORY BAER, author ofLife: Chances, RecountThe Boston Globethat if you are already a published author, yourChances are 1 in 220.

Winning a price of the Academy is an honor of the prestigious industry. However, it is also about thousands of people who work as actors, administrators, costume manufacturers, designer designers, and more have won. From 2020, a total of3,140 people brought Oscar awards at home, with additional dozens each year.

Playing basketball in a professional manner may seem like a high career goal, but it's really fairly feasible - if you play college ball, that is to say. According to the NCAA,21.3% of collegial players will go pro.

The United States may not have had its first president woman, but many other countries actually have59 countries had a woman leader.

Love at first sight is a sweet phenomenon that appears only for a little lucky. But in reality, fairy tale romances are more common than they speak. After all, a 2013 survey found that56% of Americans believe in love at first sight.

It turns out, there are many more millionaires in the pool of meetings that you might have thought. Baer said that the chances that the person you meet is a millionaire has 1 in 216. Part of these chances could be due to the fact that the number of millionaires increases. In 2018, there were 11.8 million households in the United States with a net worth of more than $ 1 million, according to a 2019 report by the SPECTREM research company. It's an impressive3% of the population.

Unfortunately, you are much more likely to face the government's tax benefits you may have thought. According to the IRS data, you have a1 chance on 160 to be audited. Better check these numbers before filing your next return!

For many respectful citizens, being arrested probably does not sound like it's too often. But according to the center of Brennan for justice,1 of 3 in 3 Americans have been arrested At the age of 23. In fact, as many Americans have criminal records than college diplomas.

To be completely innocent will not prevent you from being convicted of a crime. "Justice of the Supreme CourtAntonin Scalia cited the chances of unfair conviction to all ... 1 of 3,703, "according toThe Review of Las Vegas-Journal. The newspaper also explains that "Professor of Law of the University of MichiganSamuel gross guess there is about a4.1% error rate for convictions This end in death sentences - it's 1 of 24. "

There are so many objects flying in space, which means that our planet can not always avoid hitting. According to NASA, "Aboutonce a year, an auto size asteroid strikes the atmosphere of the earth, creates an impressive fireball and burns before reaching the surface. "

Each year, thousands of meteors also rush to the ground and (fortunately) most of them have burned in our atmosphere on the planet before being able to make major damage to the surface below. However, about 6,100 years manage to reach the ground. This means that every day,17 new meteors go to our planet.

You may think that the shipwrecked are the stuff of movies and legends, but if you had a high-tech sinking detection machine, you would find a lot.James Delgado, Director of the Maritime Heritage Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, considers that there is aMillions of submarine shipwrecks now. "Given everything that is mapped and everything else, I would say that the majority of them remain undiscovered," he saidPopular mechanics.

Whether you believe or not ghosts, there is probably a person around you who does - and who believes they have seen one. According to a survey of the 2015 PEW Research Center,1 in 5 adults in the United States say they have seen or have been in the presence of a ghost.

Seeing a ghost is not the only mysterious phenomenon that occurs more often than you do not expect. From 1947 to 1969, the US government investigated 12,618 reportedUser OPNI. And although most could be explained by phenomena related to bad weather,701 cases could not be solved, according to the national archives.

Mothers against drunken driving (MADD) provide fairly frightening statistics on drunken driving. Every day there is more than300,000 incidents of drinking and driving. In 2017 alone, 10,874 people died in drunken driving accidents.

Being able to call 911 when you need help, but there are many people who use the service for circumstances that are not genuine emergencies. In 2016, San Francisco alone studied257,000 911 calls that were not emergencies About 1.2 million calls that year.

What you probably know about Gamma rays is that Marvel's Hulk Fiction's character turned into the great version of the big green monster of the courtesy of the material. So who could blame you to think that exposure to gamma rays is super rare? But in reality, humans come into contact with this type of radiation quite often.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) explains that "X-rays andGamma rays can come from natural sources, such as radon gases, the radioactive elements in the earth and the cosmic rays that strike the earth from the extra-atmospheric space. "However, there are also artificial sources." X-rays and gamma rays are created in power plants for nuclear energy, and are also used in small quantities for medical imaging tests, cancer treatment, food irradiation and safety scanners. Airports, "adds the ACS.

According to the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources of the University of California, coding, which is not a worm, but a caterpillar is "acommon and serious harmful Apples, pears and even home cultivation nuts. In short, mourde with caution!

The next time you query an expiration date or you have a chance on a less appreciable restaurant, you may want to look at how common for food poisoning. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, "the Federal Government considers that there are approximately 48 million cases of foodborne illness, the equivalent ofScapening 1 of 6 Americans every year. And every year, these diseases result in approximately 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths. "

Since February 29th only occurs once every four years and 365 days ago a year ago, you might think that the chances of being born to a day of leaps are almost impossible. But while your chances are not incredible, you have a1 of 1,461 chance to be born on February 29, according to the BBC.

Despite the fact that there is typically a four-leaf clover for 10,000 to three sheets, the volume of clovers in each patch means that you aremore likely to find a that you might think. In fact, an Australian woman who went to seek the supposed charm luckyFound 21 clovers with four leaves in his courtyard alone.

While the sunny rain does not ring as it would happen too often,The New York Times stresses that "there isalways a place somewhere on this planet Where you can stumble on this magic weather paradox. The sun's showers are so frequent in Hawaii, for example, there are forecasts for them specifically in local weather reports.

Depending on the legend, if you locate the end of a rainbow, you will also have the chance to find a golden pot of Leprechaun. And although this is indeed a rare event to find the treasury treasury of a mythical sprite, locate them the end of a rainbow is not so unusual. Weather.com experts explain that "the rainbows are formed when water droplets in the atmosphere refer or bend, the sunlight in the good circumstances. But you, like the observer, must catch them just from the right angle and from the point of view. also to see them. "This means that despite being able tosee The end of the rainbow, you can not access it because you closer closer, it will seem to move away.

However, weather experts add: "depending on how you look at it, it could also say that there is an infinite number [from Rainbows] in the sky when the conditions are right. You might bestanding at the end of a rainbow right now! "The spirit blown.