Its a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance you will get hit by a meteor in your lifetime. Even less likely it will happen today.

So, what is the chance that at some point today something, anything, will happen to you that has a 1 in a 1,000,000 chance of happening or more? In other words, how often does a day go by where something nearly impossible happens... well, the answer is it is pretty much guaranteed.

In fact every moment you are experiencing countless events that have a one in a million chance or more of happening. Try and wrap your head around that :)

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What does count as a meteor? Does it have to be bigger that 0.001 mm?

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@selea I'm not talking about the chance of a meteor hitting you. That was just an example of a rare event. I'm talking about the chance that something statistically rare, anything, will happen to you today.

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