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Me and my 4 year younger sister share our birthday. Growing up people would often gasp and ask themselves "what are the odds??", to which I'd usually reply "1/365?".

My father and step-sister also share their birthdays.

I guess probabilities are just really unintuitive to people.




Obligatory quote by Richard Feynman:

"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"




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