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.