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23 Rarest Things on Earth (Including You!)

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By Atoholi ChishiPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

Solar eclipses happen about once every 18 months, but a myth says they're rare. The next one will take place in April 2024. You can check it out yourself!

One in three thousand people are struck by lightning each year, while also having a nine in ten chance of surviving the strike. Some shocking odds include 12 fingers and eyes being more likely to be struck by lightning than a piano. Experts give differing numbers, but most estimate the odds of being struck by lightning at around one in five hundred. Pianos however...? Those are pretty freakin' odds!

One in 1,000 eggs may include a double yolk, which is extremely rare. These eggs are typically laid by young hens who are still learning how to lay eggs, so you can tell that the hens are beginners. A person from Australia discovered such an egg and shared a photo, claiming that the triple egg yolk tastes the same as any other regular one and that the world record for having the most yolks in one egg is nine. However, the odds of finding a triple yolk in an egg are higher, at least according to the British egg information service, where they are one in 25 million. Another record is that a British woman discovered 29 double yolkers, all of them intact.

If you find a 4-leaf clover, it is taken into consideration to be a sign of accurate success in eire but that is quite uncommon and the chances are simplest about one in every ten thousand clovers however Gabriella Gerhard of Fitchburg Wisconsin managed to find 451 4-leaf clovers in a single hour so I bet nothing is impossible in case you attempt tough enough you'll probably even find a seven leaf clover but this time the odds are one in 250 million

Describe fluffy chips if you can. One was discovered by an Australian child who posted it on Tik Tok. As the story spread, the girl even listed the puffy chip on eBay. Bids for the chip reached insanely high levels—up to $100,000—before the listing was eventually removed, but the kids were still able to sell it. For this special chip, the Doritos manufacturer offered a whooping $20,000!

The likelihood of being hurt by a toilet is one in 10,000; no, I didn't make that up; it's a real statistic. Winning the lottery sounds next to impossible, especially if it's a McDonald's Monopoly game. Canadian structural engineer Michael Ross calculated your odds of winning $1 million in the McDonald's Monopoly game, and they are an incredible one in 451 million 822158 hold on sorry we can't mention Whopper when we're talking about odds.

I doubt anyone could consume that many chicken McNuggets to obtain those tickets, but compared to MCD, winning the Powerball jackpot seems a little bit simpler. Don't buy that boat just yet; although the possibilities are 1 in 292 million, they are still extremely tiny.

What do you think is more likely, winning the lottery or becoming an astronaut? The answer is becoming an astronaut, as the odds of doing so are almost 40 times higher than those of winning the McD Monopoly game. In fact, in 2016, 18300 people applied to NASA, and only 10 were accepted for the training programme.

As for careers, how about writing? According to statistics, your chances of success aren't all that bad. For example, your odds of writing a best-selling novel are 1 in 220, which is comparable to the likelihood that you'll date a billionaire, but you won't need to ask for money because it will be yours entirely in this case.

Although winning an Oscar is easier than winning the lottery, you can also become an actor. The odds of winning this magnificent golden statuette are one in 11500, but in order to win the Oscar, you must first become a movie star, so your chances here are slimmer at one in 1189,000, which means they really aren't in your favour. Nevertheless, all of this seems more likely than winning the lottery.

Now let's look at your chances of being a billionaire. There are numerous ways to earn money, but it seems that each of us has a six to 22 percent chance of doing so. Even if it's six in 100, that still sounds like a very good chance, not to mention 22 and 100. it appears like the chances of earning an Olympic gold medal are extremely slim. Bravo to all the athletes that made it! According to some sources, it's just one in 662,000.

Finding a pearl is about one in twelve thousand times more likely than winning the Oscar. If you enjoy bowling, it may seem easy, but the odds of a professional bowler making a perfect 300 game are one in 460. For novices, things are more difficult. Chances are 1 in 11,500. Yes, getting an Oscar is just as difficult as bowling, but Michelle Yeoh can multitask by doing everything at once.

What are your chances of living to 100 years old? Let's play a guessing game now. The correct response, according to experts, is one in 5,000, not one in 10,000 or one in 15,000 Marcel. They also claim that the youngest people now have a considerably higher probability of living to 100 years old or even longer.

If you've ever achieved SAT success I understand the stress you're under, but the next time your parents urge you to put more effort into your studies to ace the SAT, you can remind them that only 504 out of over 1.5 million students in 2015 managed to score perfectly. That number is roughly one in 38,000, so don't worry.

What are the possibilities that you'll be poisoned? The likelihood of getting food poisoning is about one in six, so dive in whether you eat at fine dining establishments or drive-through fast food eateries. Now, I don't really want to compare Harvard University to the lottery, but your chances of getting accepted into Hobbit are much higher than winning a jackpot. In 2021, the acceptance rate was only 3.2 percent, or about three students out of every 100 applicants. However, you don't need to work hard to buy a lottery ticket.

Hey, are you right-handed or left-handed? Approximately 85% to 90% of people are right-handed, compared to approximately 10% to 15% of left-handed persons. What about ambidextrous people? These people are uncommon. Only one in 100 people are ambidextrous, so even if you can use both hands equally well and perform some simple tasks with your non-dominant hand, you aren't one of those people.

How old are you today? Despite the fact that it can appear like we all have a one in 365 chance of being born on any given day of the year, there is one exception. You may not have discovered a reason why you're unique in this list, but trust me, you are just by virtue of your birth. According to scientists, you had about a one in ten to the power of 2685000 chance of being born on February 29, which is a leap year.

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Atoholi Chishi

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I am an Educator and Research Scholar from North- East India, a wonderful place called Nagaland. Feel free to connect!

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