Thu Dec 02, 2021 8:33 am
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Paultheparaglider wrote:30 years later, I ended up with a Chinese wife. Spooky, huh?
Just imagine how spooked and confused your lovely wife's family is!!
Misc.
Paultheparaglider wrote:30 years later, I ended up with a Chinese wife. Spooky, huh?
JAFO wrote:It is estimated that we may meet or otherwise interact with 80,000 people in our lives, it's hardly surprising that we might bump into them again.
If each of those 80,000 meet 80,000 then that means that we are talking about 6.4 billion people so the chances of meeting someone who knew someone you knew are so high that we should remark on it if the person you meet doesn't know someone else you've previously met.
T6Harvard wrote:I am always surprised when presented with the stat about the high probability of sharing a birthday with someone else at a gathering (if anyone remembers those) .
Paultheparaglider wrote:By an amazing coincidence, today is 2021, December 2nd.
20211202.
A palindrome.
lobstaboy wrote:.. you only have to trace your ancestors back to about 1700 to find you are related to everyone else in the UK...