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Colin Wright
Aug 05, 2021
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Even wildly improbable things happen from time to time.

There are people who have been repeatedly struck by lightning over the course of their lives, won the lottery multiple times, and who have been hit by meteorites.

The mathematical chances of being struck by lightning once is something like 1 in 500,000 in any given year, though those odds differ depe…

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