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At the Field Museum in Chicago, there is a display about meteorites. One part of it shows a meteorite that hit a garage, went through the roof, through the roof of a car parked inside, through the floor of the car, then bounced back up and lodged in the rear seat. Extremely unlikely, but it happened.


Every specific real thing that happens is as equally unlikely as everything else. It's just our interpretation that makes certain things seem unusual, when, in fact, they're as usual as everything else.


That doesn’t seem to make a whole lot sense. A meteorite hitting it is one of the most unlikely things that could ever happen to any given garage.


Wild! What are the stats on them hitting humans?





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