Lucky Lottery Memes to Bring ‘Cash-Prize Energy’ to Your Weekly Scratchers

Every year, estranged family members buy their nieces, nephews, and distant cousins a $5 scratcher for their birthday. With no other viable gifts at hand, sometimes the chance at a win is enough to keep the familial ties alive. In fact, if you were to win, I can almost guarantee that the same person who …
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People Discuss Statistically Improbable Things That Have Happened to Them

Have you ever had something happen to you where the odds of it occurring were unbelievable? It doesn’t have to be something positive. Sure, some incredibly lucky people win the lottery and some people become famous musicians. Props to them, but we’re talking about anything and everything statistically improbable. Things like getting struck by lightning …
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Thoughtful Thread Points Out The Privileges Most Of Us Take For Granted

It is accepted wisdom that life is often pretty hard, no matter where you come from. However, it would be stupid to ignore that many of us benefit from circumstances and people in our life while others do not have the same opportunities. This AskReddit got everyone thinking when it questioned all the things that …
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Miraculous Times Lucky People Dodged A Bullet

Is one’s life just a series of random and chaotic events, or are there underlying patterns that determine the things that happen to us? In the late 1050s, Meteorologist Edward Lorenz was skeptical of linear statistical models of meteorology and pioneered weather and climate predictability through his discovery of deterministic chaos—the theory that though chaotic …
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