Real Life Examples Of Butterfly Effect In Action

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Jul 10, 2021 4:00 PM EDT

It can be a wildly disorienting experience to meticulously trace the effects of what seems to be a minor action, as it blossoms into all kinds of results further on down the road. The butterfly effect is a very bizarre thing, indeed. For another AskReddit thread that's along a similar vein check out this post about the biggest plot holes that people experienced in reality itself. 

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    Rectangle - Pennsyltucky-79 · 2d The downfall of Centralia, Pennsylvania. Burning some trash at a dump resulted in the demise of the entire town over a period of decades. G Reply 1 118 3 ...
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    Rectangle - WogBat · 2d The driver of the car that held Arch duck Franz Ferdinand making a wrong turn, leading to W1 G Reply 4 87 3 ...
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    Font - corny-dude · 1d Ottomans capturing Constantinople. Ottoman blockage of Silk road and trade to Asia resulted in Europeans trying to circumnavigate to Asia which led to colonization of the Americas. The American colonization gave them the edge over Asian economies and gave rise to capitalism and rest is history G Reply 4 64 3 ...
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    Font - emma527 · 2y Nearly every single friend I have in college is because one day in my gen-ed health class we had to pick a seat that would become our seat for the semester. When I came in there weren't many seats left, and the people I sat next to ended up becoming my best friends and introduced me to all of my other friends in one way or another. 7.3k ...
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    Font - shitscrubber · 2y High school, I didnt get into the AP history class wanted. Changed up my schedule, including a different gym class, without everyone I knew. I was heartbroken. I really wanted to teach, and without an AP class senior year, I was screwed. Made a new friend in gym class, who was wearing a volunteer firefighter shirt. He had just joined. Seemed interesting, and he invited me to check it out. They paid for me to get my EMT. Fell in love with healthcare. Fast forward quite a
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    Font - Fireboy759 · 1d I actually got an somewhat-interesting story that ended up using the butterfly effect (or perhaps the domino effect) I was helping out a lady at my job with finding some clothes in specific sizes. She thanks me and goes on to another part of the store to check out other things. Y'know, business as usual. I think nothing of it and get back to organizing my section of the store. About 10 minutes later my boss asks if a can of Red Bull nearby me on a shelf was mine, and then
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    Font - Sweet-Lady-H · 2y 3 1 Award If my biological mom hadn't asked her parents to watch me for a couple hours and then left town, I wouldn't have had the incredible and privileged life that I was given through adoption. My younger half brothers were raised by our biological mom and they are a total freaking mess (I'm more of a mom to them than their actual mom), and I would have been an absolute wreck also if she'd kept me. Instead I was given an amazing private education, all the sports and m
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    Font - mikevankempen · 2y The wife and I were having dinner in Hawaii one night on vacation. As we were getting up to leave, I noticed she hadn't finished her beer. I told her she should finish the beer since we paid some ridiculous price for it. Fast forward 30 seconds and we leave the restaurant and are walking the 3 blocks back to the hotel. About 50 feet in front of us as we're walking (were walking down the sidewalk on the left side of the road), a car comes flying out of a side street from
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    Font - Classy_Sodomite · 1d The Netherlands dropping out of the Euro 2021. One player missed an easy goal, then the team got frustrated and a minute later a Dutch player got sent off with a red card and the whole team disintegrated. G Reply
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    Font - ballards_anus_blood · 2y When I was 18 I had a girlfriend, and her older brother owned a small company. He said to me "you know I think you'd be pretty good at this job." I'm 34 now, and have a legitimate career that I love because I dated a girl for a bit. I also had a cat for the better part of that time period because of the girlfriend. I'm a cat person now. 4 7.8k
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    Rectangle - Comma_rider • 1d One man's childhood hobby of bug collecting would eventually spawn the most financially successful franchise of all time. G Reply ...
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    Font - speedy-tomato · 2y Received an incredibly high paying job offer to run our biggest competitor's team. Told my boss, even though I loved my job, but it was more than double what I was making. Boss agreed to a reasonable raise, still not near the offer. I decided to stay because I genuinely loved my team/coworkers, and the money wasn't enough to leave that happy place. In exchange, I had to take up another account that meant a business trip I didn't have in the plans. Went on that trip and
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    Font - Sethrial · 2y Almost everything that has happened in my life for the past eight years is a direct result of me literally flipping a coin to decide between two colleges. I play the sport I do, have the friends I do, am dating the person I am, and very nearly every other aspect of my life, is because a nickel landed on heads. 4.9k ...
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    Font - [deleted] · 2y One day I was working at a surfshop, and at the end of my shift at 6pm. I wanted to hangout for a bit to flirt with one of my coworkers which led to me witnessing a bad car accident 30 minutes later. Which led me to meeting an off duty EMT on scene, which led me to become an EMT/Paramedic and now I love my career. If I didn't decide to flirt with said coworker, I wouldn't be an EMT. 294 ...
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    Font - Erasedstar • 2y I was working a really dead end job and my car let me down on the way to work. I was an agency worker so they can at a drop of a hat terminate my employment. They rang me up 30 mins after I told them I was going to be late in. At that point my car was recovered and I was on my way in. To tell me not to bother as I no longer had a job there. This made me go back to college and have a goal to goto university. I graduated with honours from university and after a long time of
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    Rectangle - EveRommel • 2y My grandfather took a typing class in high school in the 1930s. When he was drafted he was saved from Okinawa because they needed clerks. 63
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    Font - busytoothbrush · 2y My mother wore heels to work and slipped on the carpeted steps, resulting in a broken high heel and a broken leg. While she was home recovering, she somehow developed allergies that led to her needing an inhaler*. The inhaler* interfered with her birth control and now I have a brother 13 years younger than me. *Edit: mother confirmed that it was the penicillin that she was prescribed. 664 ...
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    Font - [deleted] · 2y 3 1 Award At the end of 6th grade, my class took a field trip on a whale watch. That night, I saw a commercial for a documentary TV series on whales. Ever since that day, I wanted to grow up and protect whales from being hunted. Today I work in the military specializing in Marine Preservation. 4.9k ...
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