18 Crazily Unlikely Occurrences People Had Happen to Them

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Eric Lund
Feb 22, 2019 11:00 AM EST

There's a lot of people in the world, so it's a statistical certainly that some really, really, ridiculously rare crap is gonna happen to someone out there. Whether it's getting struck by lightning, something worse, or just winning some weird sweepstakes, there are some crazy unlikely stories out there.

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    Text - Notey22 17.5k points 11 hours ago 2 I've got the middle toes on both feet webbed. So did Stalin Quack
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    Text - edited 2 hours ago S asiantigerj 10.3k points 13 hours ago I own a Lego Minifigure call Mr. Gold. This particular minifig was to celebrate the 10th series of the Lego figurine line. They are sort of like grab bags, you can feel for them but you don't know what minifigure you're really going to get. So because they were celebrating they thought it was a good idea to only make $5, 000 of these. Anyways, When I was younger and even now I was really good knowing which figures they are simply
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    Text - IAdventureTimeI 49.2k points 13 hours ago edited I had 8 wisdom teeth, the dentist had never seen 4 hours anything like it and called the whole office in to marvel at my teeth
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    Text - StevesMcQueenIsHere 25.3k points14 hours ago I have a very rare skin disease that only one in a million people get. I've been told that I'll probably never meet another person in my lifetime with it. edited 4 Hailey-Hailey disease for those interested Edit: For those asking: 1. I was diagnosed by a team of dermatologists. They had to take a biopsy of one of my many outbreaks. A picture of that particularly horrible rash is currently in a medical journal, or so I've been told. 2. Yes, it i
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    Text - 13 hours ago orionova89 42.3k points I was struck by lightning while talking on landline. This was in the early 90s. Lightning struck the telephone line and traveled through the handset to my ear. My parents drove me to the ER. I couldn't talk very well. My brain knew what I wanted to say, but my mouth didn't want to say it. I had a terrible stutter My doctor told me that I had had a 'dose of good, old fashioned electro-shock therapy'. My speach was normal the next day, but I get a terrib
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    Text - k1-wife 32.3k points 12 hours ago I slept wrong one night and pinched a nerve in my neck so severely I lost the right side of my body, it just went silent like it wasn't there for months. I woke up in the worst pain I've ever experienced and couldn't talk, move or do anything. The ER doctor thought I was having a stroke. My doctor had never seen a case as severe as mine and it was purely a freak accident. Recovery took months but I have use of my leg and hand again, with some numbness. Ot
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    Text - eggburnt 28.3k points 12 hours ago Not sure if this is a blessing or a curse, but I'm an extremely tall human, 7'3 (yes really). Not sure how rare that is
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    Text - 13 hours ago edited 9 hours ago Sooodun 12.4k points Got a rare but potentially deadly rash from a medication. I laughed when I first saw the bottle with the warning, and said knowing my luck I'd get it. I did. Ended up in a burn unit with my skin sloughing off (not a fun week
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    Text - Skinnypete89 9.3k points 13 hours ago When I was a teenager I had just started working at the local Sears auto center Express lube shop and on day one did a quick orientation and my first oil change. The manager walked away when he felt I was good to go and the oil change went well. Fast forward a few days later my manager asked me to come into his office and he explained that the oil filter I had used had one huge flaw. I didn't know what that was and it turned out the filter was pressed
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    Text - edited 6 hours agoS person978 10.6k points 12 hours ago I am allergic to the cold. like literally. i get intense hives, swelling, i pass out, and throw up. Doesn't even have to be freezing. Below 45 degrees without a jacket and I can't do it. I have to carry an epi pen with me in the event that I drink something too cold or have a severe reaction
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    Text - TheBrightLord 4.1k points 16 hours ago Not quite 1 in a million but it sure felt like it. edited 6 hours ago When I graduated high school I was offered a full ride scholarship, entirely based on academic merit, to study the program I loved more than anything at the school I'd dreamed of going to for years. The school in question was notorious for giving very few scholarships (I'm Canadian) and the particular scholarship I won was only awarded to 1 student in my program at that school in t
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    Text - indiesnobs 8.9k points 12 hours ago The first one I don't know about the exact odds, but I was born on 7/7/77 and weighed 7 pounds & 7 ounces. Sadly though I clocked in at 6:50 A.M
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    Text - goodthoughtsandmore 1.7k points 15 hours ago I'm a test-tube baby and so is my fraternal twin, so yes. My younger brother is also a test tube baby.
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    Text - edited 4 hours ago Rainingwaen 24.8k points 12 hours ago I have symmetric bilateral coloboma of the iris and retina! Essentially, my pupils are shaped like keyholes instead of circles. A single coloboma is pretty rare, double coloboma is even more rare, and double symmetrical... well, you get it.
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    Text - edited 5 hours ago Crippl 11.8k points 14 hours ago No idea on the actual numbers, but I was born with 12 fingers. Identical extra digits on each hand
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    Text - DawgzCookie 21.5k points 13 hours ago I once guessed a 6 digit random combination on the first try. It was the only try I planned to give, as a kind of scratchpad whatever moment.
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    Text - FuriousFred 3.2k points 12 hours ago When I was a kid, I was chilling in the water of the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey. Suddenly I felt an awful burning sensation on my stomach and my legs. I looked like I had been brutally sandpapered and I got a 40°C (104F) fever Turns out I made contact with a jellyfish, and later found out that it hadn't happened on that beach for 10 years or so. I was just extremely unlucky
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    Text - CaptchaGremlin 19.2k points 12 hours agoS For my seventh birthday we went to Disneyland. They just happened to be having a car a day giveaway when we were there. For my seventh birthday, Mickey Mouse gave me pontiac firebird
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