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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group When it's so quiet you can hear snow falling, you're actually hearing the static discharge of the snowflake hitting the ground. It gathers the electricity while it's falling to Earth.

KeithCSchatz , James Mann Report

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285points

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Alias Delfs 2 years ago

Whoa

35points

FirstBankofAngmar , Jörg Weingrill Report

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group A graveyard is connected to a church while a cemetery is not.

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274points

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StrangeOne 2 years ago

I didn't know there was a difference.

117points

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Oxford University existed 250 years before the Aztecs existed. Oxford University first opened in 1096, the Aztec period was from 1345-1521. Oxford University is second only to the University of Bologna for continuous operation.

WhozTheDaddy , Chris Rycroft Report

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239points

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Cubbypotato 2 years ago

Holy BANANAS

45points

AggravatingDriver559 , Hemming1952 Report

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Greenland sharks can become up to 400 years old and don’t reach sexual maturity until they’re 150

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Jihana 2 years ago

And they are poisonous. That's why the Icelanders of old let the meat rot ("ferment") in the ground for a few months and then let it air dry. It does not taste as bad as it sounds, but it's still disgusting.

82points

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Sharks have been around longer than the rings of Saturn.

Edit: It's an easy Google. The rings of Saturn formed no more that 100 million years ago, we know what they are made of, how fast they move, and the rate of decay. Sharks have been around for about 450 million years. We have fossilized records of this.

itsmyfrigginusername , leah Report

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211points

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Emerald Ocean 2 years ago

This is why we need to protect sharks. We can and still are learning so much from them.

75points

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group that sahara desert used to be under the ocean, and you can still find seashells in the sand there

breadcrumb1996 , cattan2011 Report

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207points

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago (edited)

Isn't sand made out of the minerals of shells anyway?

36points

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Neptune was originally discovered as apparently inexplicable changes in the orbital path of Uranus. Because a man named Le Verrier observing these alterations decided that there must be an orderly reason for it, he calculated where another planet would have to be to cause Uranus to act like that, and still keep the laws of gravitation discovered by Sir Isaac newton. He then sent his calculations to Royal Observatory in Berlin, and the prediction was within 1° of its actual position.

JaywrightCat , Kabsik Park Report

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202points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Uranus was moving inexplicably? Also Uranus has rings around it.

25points

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony sounds like this: "di-di-di-dah".

That is the Morse code representation of the letter V: (...-)

V is the Roman numeral for five.

Purely coincidence, as the Fifth was written 40 years before Morse code was invented.

dittybopper_05H , Thomas Quine Report

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199points

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Ms. Human Being 2 years ago

Coincidence…I think not

54points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The Goonies go underground on the exact same day (Saturday, Oct. 26, 1985) as Marty travels back in time to 1955.

misterfriend , Warner Bros. Report

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181points

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Susan Teter 2 years ago

Yeah....the 80's were AWESOME!!!

61points

RedditIsAShitehole , Rodolphe Breard Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group All the Botox in the world, literally every gram, is produced in a factory in Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

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170points

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Frances M 2 years ago

And viagra comes from Cork, Ireland

49points

eggypotato- , Masa Israel Journey Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group you know when you get up too fast and feel dizzy? squeezing/stiffening your buttocks together stops the dizziness.

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169points

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Deborah Harris 2 years ago (edited)

As all BP readers try it out immediately :D

182points

Dependent-Status-880 , Rich Kenington Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group There are more trees on planet earth (~3 trillion) than there are stars in our galaxy (~800 billion).

Note it says our galaxy (the milky way), not the entire universe. Still I find the sheer number of trees on our planet impressive

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166points

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StrangeOne 2 years ago

Who counted all the trees?

79points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Whales are closer to artiodactyls (even toed hoofed animals) than they are to seals or manatees.

Whales are *essentially* just wet deer with extra steps.

magcargoman , Jose Antonio Navas Report

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163points

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Bunzilla 2 years ago

Check out pictures of the Kutchicetus. It was a whale ancestor, and it's pretty weird to look at and then imagine it somehow turning into a whale. Heck, it's just pretty weird looking period. Further back and even less whale-looking was the Pakicetus.

37points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Ancient Egypt and mammoths existed at the same time.

Sir_Scizor20 , Chris Hunkeler Report

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159points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

In the historically accurate film 10,000 BC, the Egyptians used mammoths to move the huge blocks needed for the construction of the pyramids. The film is cheesy as hell but I love it.

54points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Tamales are one of the oldest dishes on earth still commonly eaten today.

BitPoet , kinwart Report

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157points

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Bored Person 2 years ago

Someone please explain to me what tamales are

46points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group As an Italian in the us it’s that Pepperoni actually would mean peppers in Italy and has absolutely nothing to do with thinly sliced meat.

Only-Possibility-114 , MattCC716 Report

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155points

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Stevie 2 years ago

In Germany "pepperoni" is like a really spicy pepper

53points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group George Washington died in 1799.

Dinosaurs were discovered in 1824.

George Washington didn't know dinosaurs existed.

DrySoap__ , David Kryzaniak Report

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154points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Not quite right. Fossils have been known about for many many years. Some people collected them. Nobody seriously thought to classify them. Up until 1824. When fossil studying got serious.

60points

#19

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans.

KingKimoi , virtualsphere Report

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133points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

And the same as a mouse. (the furry kind, not the computer kind.)

77points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In Volkswagen’s official Parts catalog, one of the official Volkswagen parts, with its own part number (199 398 500 A), is a currywurst sausage they serve to their staff in Wolfsburg, Germany.

199 398 500 B is ketchup.

Brotherbeam , RoadOver Report

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133points

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BasedWang12.3 2 years ago

"The product has been described as the most produced of any of Volkswagen's parts, some 6.81 million sausages being manufactured in 2018. In many recent years the company has produced more sausages than cars."

35points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group When airline pilots are trained to fly a new type of jet, the first time they fly it is with paying passengers on board. All the training and testing is done in a simulator.

Of course they have a lot of flight time in other airplanes and there is a specially qualified training captain in command. However my first jet takeoff was LAX-DEN with 68 unsuspecting passengers.

usmcmech , alex lang Report

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126points

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Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago

Aha! I think I was on that plane.

22points

#22

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The Earth is traveling through space at 2.1 million km/h (1.3 million mph) relative to the cosmic background radiation. Which means by the time you finished reading this, you've travelled roughly 8,700km (5,420 mi) through space.

AngryBuddha01 , TheMuuj Report

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125points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

But how does that work when we live on a flat Earth and the Moon is a projection created by the Illuminati?

108points

Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group You can see your nose all the time.

It is always within your field of view, unless you force your eyeballs to roll up as far as they go.

Your brain filters it out of your perception to save resources, but if you pay explicit attentio to it (as you may be doing now), it becomes obviously visible.

Do not despair, tho.. after a brief time, you forget about it and it "disappears" again.

RandomStuffGenerator , AbbyD11 Report

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124points

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$cagsy 2 years ago

What else is my brain hiding from me? Could be a whole 'nother dimension out there that we aren't seeing because our brains don't think we're ready. Could be fairies and stuff. Even I don't know if I'm ready for fairies but it's the principle.

110points

Relevant-Charity9689 , jon collier Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The earth's crust (which is too deep for humans to drill through, much deeper than the deepest ocean) compared to the rest of the planet is similar to the skin of an apple compared to the rest of the apple.

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122points

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Cubbypotato 2 years ago

I heard this when I was little and did not understand it. I always got scared if my dad or older brothers were digging in the yard hoping they would not fall into lava.

54points

Ok_Zucchini_4303 , Forest Starr and Kim Starr Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Black apples exist.

We tend to think of apples as being red, though there are, of course, some popular green and yellow varieties. But did you know there are also black apples? Called Black Diamond apples, they're found in Tibet and are from the Hua Niu family of apples, also known as Chinese Red Delicious. Aside from the black outer color—actually an extremely dark shade of purple—these apples look just like other Red Delicious apples, down to the white flesh inside.

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119points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

How do they taste though?

56points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group The gene for six fingers is dominant, five fingers recessive.

D0fus , andrea castelli Report

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113points

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Jihana 2 years ago

Does Inigo Montoya know this?

106points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Almost 100% of the matter that composes plants comes from the air, not the ground.

teabagalomaniac , Herry Lawford Report

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113points

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Frances M 2 years ago

Water and minerals come from the ground but the carbon and other elements come from the air, that’s why a 1,000 ton tree is a bigger carbon sink per square meter of land then anything else. But the biggest land based carbon sinks are actually grass land and bog land because they turn that CO2 into soil through composting, think peat lands…

32points

BernieceTAnderson , Bryce Bradford Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group Moose are naturally attacked by orcas.

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111points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

Moose like to swim, and can swim between islands looking for food. Then comes the Orca! CHOMP!

60points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group German Chocolate Cake was invented in New York by it’s baker Samuel German who wanted to do his version of a Black Forest Cake

signaturefox2013 , Mikel Ortega Report

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108points

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Ace 2 years ago

Everyone knows what Black Forest Gateau is, who's ever heard of something called "German cake"?

38points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group "OMG" usage can be traced back to 1917.

GoGreenOnEm , Ben Chun Report

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106points

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Taibhse Sealgair 2 years ago

Even more surprising is that it was first found in a letter that the British admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher a British statesman named Winston Churchill.

4points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group A tablespoon of oil can calm about half an acre of water. It spreads out to form a layer 1-molecule thick on top of the water. That's why oil spills are so harmful and destructive. The largest oil spill (BP) was about 61,488,636,185 tablespoons, or about 68,000 miles of damage.

deqb , GPT Environmental Report

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97points

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Curly potato 2 years ago

I doubt anyone here will know what I'm talking about, but they did this experiment on the show Duck Quacks Don't Echo. Worth watching, it's very entertaining! Besides, you can't get any funnier than Lee Mack :D

30points

50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In the US, the dash lines on highways are generally 10 feet long, not 2-3 like most people assume.

Color09 , Doug Kerr Report

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94points

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Nathaniel 2 years ago

They should start painting them in metre lengths. The colonies WILL learn to use metric.

47points

#33

35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group There are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than there are atoms on earth.

stocksNcrpt , Erwan Martin Report

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93points

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Curly potato 2 years ago

Those look a little like dixit cards. By the way, I highly recommend dixit to anyone who hasn't played :)

23points

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In a group of 23 random people, the probability of two of them sharing a birthday is over 50%.

pizzaninjatx , Dark Dwarf Report

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91points

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Amanda Jayne 2 years ago

I married someone with the same date of birth as me. It was not a good reason

35points

Michael Largey 2 years ago

Well, I bet you never forgot your wife's birthday.

7points

Lee Kerr 2 years ago

My ex husband’s second wife shared my birthday; he had ancestors/distant relatives who shared birthdays and deathdays https://plus.maths.org/content/celebrate-chance-coincidence-and-unlikelihood-friday-huntrodds-day

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Veryish 2 years ago

I generally don't like cake as a rule but that looks tasty

0points

Stinky Malinky 2 years ago

I had a boyfriend whose birthday was the day after mine, and I’d hate it like a bratty child whenever we’d be out for my birthday, and the clock ticked last midnight and it was no longer my special night. I’d probably have imploded if it was the same day.

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DramaDoc 2 years ago

The very first person I met when I moved from PA to NE shares a birthday with me. We celebrated together since I didn't know anyone at the time and we're still friends and birthday buds 18 yrs later. Coincidently, we're also in the same state again (She moved from NE to PA; I moved from NE to OR and then bacK to PA last year).

1point

CD King 2 years ago

I was with a group of 5 people (4 were strangers) and 3 of us had the same birthday. 2 of us even had the same year. I wish I had those odds at winning the lottery.

1point

mayaexists 2 years ago

What's the math on this?

1point

Apatheist 62 2 years ago

If you are person #1, the chances of person #2 having a different birthday is 364/365. The chances of person #3 having a different birthday from both of you is (364/365) * (363/365) and so on. By the time you get to person #23, there chances of being different from EVERYONE else is 364/365 * 363/365 * 362/365....*342/365 - which comes out at just under 50%, so it's more likely than 2 will have the same birthday than not. It's a favourite trick of maths teachers in the first year or two of senior school.

3points

Rider 2 years ago

I have twin cousin who are 3hrs older than me.

1point

Micah 2 years ago

I refer to one of my cousins as a twin for a different reason: my mom and her dad were fraternal twins.

0points

Johnny Quan 1 year ago

I believe it. My ex-gf, sister and best friend all have the same birthday (the latter two born the same year too).

0points

Techniker 2 years ago

In cryptography this statistic effect is known as the birthday paradox, and it has a huge impact of the security of systems

0points

Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

In my entire life I have met 2 people who share my birthday. One of them, I was just told by her mother that we had the same birthday. I must have been hatched . May 20!

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New Everywhere 2 years ago

What's the likelihood of this? Both my kids birth month and year are the same 8/2008 and 12/2012

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Rannveig Ess 2 years ago

A friend and her brother were both born on Aug 29 - another sister was born on Spet. 2 and another born on Sept 4. They are all exactly 2 years apart.

0points

AliJanx 2 years ago

I share the same birthday with 3 others that I know well. 1 of those 4 was born 12 hours after I was, in the same hospital. The other 2 share the same birthday, but we're born in diff years.

0points

LeeAnne B 2 years ago

I'm one of a staff compliment of 120 people. Not one shares a birthday.

0points

Michael Largey 2 years ago

The probability that at least two people in a group of 120 share the same birthday is 99.9999999756%. Does that mean that what you said has almost no way of happening? No, not at all. Picture 1 followed by 99 zeroes - a huge number. That is the approximate number of ways your statement could be correct, quite a few! It's just that the number of ways on the other side of the ledger is is even much, much huger. Remember, probability is a ratio - which is to say a comparison between two quantities.

1point

Pg130 2 years ago

Seems implausible

-2points

lapsteelguitar , Franklin Park Library Report

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35 Random Jaw-Dropping Facts, As Shared In This Online Group In the 1920s, Hawa‘ian music was the biggest selling category of sheet music.

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88points

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Hatchet 2 years ago

It's not sheet, it's good !

47points