Park ranger Roy Sullivan survived getting struck by lightning not once, not twice, but seven times.
Sullivan worked at Shenandoah National Park and was first struck in 1942; his last lightning strike came in 1977. In interviews, he hypothesized there was something about his physical makeup that attracted lightning to him.
The Guinness World Records recognized him as the person struck by lightning more than any other human. According to a statistician, the odds of being struck this many times are 4.15 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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Leafa 3 year s ago
#20, lol, an expert... basic math, the odds are 0.5^12 
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Jos 3 year s ago
#13 He didn’t hit exactly .247 in any of the four seasons. His average, when rounded to three decimal places, was .247.
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Gloria 3 year s ago
#5 - Very misleading. 90% of Canadians live within 100 mi. of the U.S. border. The population density of Toronto is 4,300/sq. km.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - - Mark Twain
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - - Mark Twain
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Pelegrine 3 year s ago
Gloria,
not misleading at all, but you missunderstood it apparantly.
not misleading at all, but you missunderstood it apparantly.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - - Mark Twain
not misleading at all, but you missunderstood it apparantly.