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I suspect this is just statistics, like "it is likely that two people will have the same birthday in a roomful of people"



The other classical example being the large number of Prussian soldiers killed by horse kicks in the late 19th century.


Would this be an example of the Poisson distribution? (Perhaps exaggerated by post holiday upgrades?)




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