By definition, odds provide a measure of the likelihood of a particular outcome. Sometimes odds are very likely, like the fact that nothing good will come out of 2020 (and thankfully, we are almost past it!), and sometimes not so much.
But on very rare occasions, odds-defying things happen against all possible likelihood, proving that after all, this world of ours is inherently random. So this time, we’re taking the ride of a lifetime featuring this selection of nearly impossible odds as presented by the r/nevertellmetheodds subreddit.
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Created in 2015, the online community has a whopping 1.7m members who are all in for bizarre and wonderful chances that shouldn’t have happened. The subreddit’s description says it’s all about “Nearly impossible feats of achievement, those with a great degree of difficulty or incredible odds,” so let’s find out what exactly all this fuss is about.
#1 I Know Twins Have Similarities But God Damn.
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#2 In 1990, A Panel Of The Windscreen On British Airways Flight 5390 Fell Out At 17k Feet, Causing The Cockpit To Decompress & Its Captain To Be Sucked Halfway Out Of The Aircraft. The Crew Held Onto Him For More Than 20 Minutes As The Copilot Made An Emergency Landing. The Pilot Made A Full Recovery
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#3 This Is How The Newspapers Were Stacked Up At My Job
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#4 Gens Are Everything
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#5 One Man’s Best Friend
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#6 Many Of You Might Have Seen This . But For Those Who Haven’t
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#7 Couple Proposes To Each Other At The Same Time
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#8 Twins Married Twins To Give Birth To Another Twins
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#9 What Goes Around Comes Around
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#10 Two Drunk Guys Imitate Connor Mcgregor As He Drives Past
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#11 We Were Seconds Away From Losing Our Home To The California Fire. Thank You To All The Firefighters That Saved Our Community!
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#12 Beluga Whale Saves An iPhone!!
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#13 “And I Took That Personally” – Tsutomu Yamaguchi (Probably)
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#14 My Grandma Died On My Grandpa’s Birthday. My Grandpa Died On My Grandma’s Birthday
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#15 Lucky Nurse
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#16 Only Realised He Was Sat In Front Of Me Half Way Through The Game
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#17 This Mother Deer Has Two Albino Fawns…
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#18 Car Found After An Amber Alert Near Me
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#19 Unexpected Reunion
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#20 Went To Take A Picture Of The Rainbow And Lightning Struck At The Same Time!
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#21 The First Time My Friend Visited My Apartment She Was Mind-Blown That My Shower Curtain Looked “Exactly” Like One Of Her Shirts. I Half-Seriously Said That Her Story Sounded Made Up And Promptly Forgot About It Until She Returned The Following Week To Demonstrate. I Forever Stand Corrected
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#22 None Of Their Feet Are Touching The Floor
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#23 Thanks Jesus
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#24 These Burned Out Lights Perfectly Align.
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#25 Small World
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#26 Finding This In Geoguesser
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#27 Arrow In A Power Cable
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#28 I’m A Woodturner & Found A Lovely Bowl In A Vintage Store, Made By The Guy Who Inspired Me As A Kid. On Closer Inspection I Felt The Bowl Was Very Familiar, So I Flipped Through The Very Book That Inspired Me, 31 Years Ago, & There It Was!
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#29 Down You Go
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#30 What A Close Call
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#31 Was Swiping At The Dispensary When I Looked Up And Saw The Girl I Was About To Swipe On
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#32 I’m Batman
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#33 Saw This Photo Posted Here.. Noticed I Have The Photo The Grandmother Took That Day. (Bought At An Antique Shop Years Ago In Phx)
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#34 That’s Gotta Be A First
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#35 It’s Gotta Be Weird To Go To The Mall One Day And Run Into… Yourself.
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#36 Lightning Striking Simultaneously On Chicago’s Three Tallest Buildings
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#37 This Hero Has Luck +9000
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#38 Two Strangers Sit Next To Each Other On A Flight And Meet Their Doppelganger
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#39 Score Is 69 To 69 With 69 Seconds And The White Jerseys Add Up To 69.
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#40 This Hare Caught On Google Street
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#41 Neighbor Brings Owner Identical Cat
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#42 Red Cross Team Accidentally Captures Meteor On Camera
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#43 Steven Hawking Has Died On Albert Einstein’s Birthday
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#44 Now You’re Playing With Power!
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#45 This Is A Tomato That Accidently Grew Inside Of The Fence.
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#46 My Brother Hit Every Pin Except 7 8 9 And 10. How Odd Is That?
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#47 Landslide Splits Just Before Hitting A Farm In Iceland. Happened This Morning. No One Got Hurt.
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#48 This Guy Became An Instant Millionaire When A Meteor Crashed Into His Room Worth Around 1.4 Million Euros
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#49 I Matched A Random Duo With A Guy, And His Name Was Not Something I Was Expecting…(Hunt:shotdown)
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#50 My Vanity Mirror Fell In My Bathroom. It Was Saved From Shattering By My Toothbrush
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#51 Taking A Picture Like This
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#52 Germany And Canada Tie For Gold In Olympic Two-Man Bobsleigh
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#53 The Laura Buxton Coincidence
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#54 Poor Cambodian Guy Was Trapped Like This For Four Days After Slipping While Alone In The Jungle. After Finding Him, It Took Ten Hours Of Chipping Away At The Rock To Free Him. He’s Alive And Now Recovering In Hospital.
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#55 I Wouldn’t Have Believed It
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#56 Pigeon Poops Portrait Of Itself On A Leaf
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#57 The Cat Knocked My Daughter’s Fish Bowl Off The Dresser
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#58 Nice Curve
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#59 Really Glad I Bought This Robot Vacuum…
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#60 The Police Facebook Page Posted A Picture Taken By A Speeding Camera. The Bird Saves The Day
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#61 A Pole Flew Through My Friends Windshield While Driving Down I-80 Outside Of Berkeley, California Almost Impaling Him
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#62 I Took The Photo Before 1|3 Symbol Appeared On His Phone Screen
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#63 How Close This Was
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#64 So My Grumpy Cat Calendar Knew What The Future Would Bring
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#65 This Car Not Being Swallowed Up After The Earthquake In Alaska
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#66 A Well Captured Photo Of Lightning Struck The Eiffel Tower
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#67 Someone In /R/Nintendoswitch Posted About Losing Their Nintendo Switch At An Airport. Another User Posted About Finding A Nintendo Switch. It Was A Match And It’s Being Returned To The Owner.
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#68 Similarities Between Joe Theismann And Alex Smith Injuries
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#69 Styrofoam Box Jumped Back Into The Van… Twice !
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#70 The Faulty Sign Still Says The Same Thing.
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#71 Oh Jesus Christ
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#72 A Leaf Fell In Front Of My Phone The Second It Took A Timed Photo
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#73 My Doctor Told Me It Was Heartburn For 8 Months, Cancerous Tumour Encapsulated The Kidney, When Removed It Was The Size Of A Honey Dew Melon And Hadn’t Spread – Oncologist Couldn’t Believe It. Nearly 6 Years Cancer Free ?
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#74 When Your Boss Has Been Working There For Ever
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#75 Just Making More Trees
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#76 My Coca-Cola Bottlecap’s Alphanumeric Code Was 69xp0rn
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#77 How Do You Even Make That Shot?
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#78 Brother Spent A Year Trying To Get A Lightning Photo. He Caught This Last Night, I Just Noticed The Boat In The Bottom Left.
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