The most improbable thing you've ever seen?

[Barfunkel]

[battschr]

A friend of mine (who posts on here, maybe he can confirm if I'm remembering this correctly) told me that he and a group of his friends were playing a pickup football game. Team A felt that they had picked a much superior team to Team B. They are going to play 'laces or spaces' for control of the ball. Team B tells Team A to call it, and one guy says "we're so much better than you that we'll give you laces and spaces, we'll take the ball if it stops on its end."

They spin the ball, it rolls around and wedges itself under a table, standing straight up and down.

Maybe not super-amazing, but I always thought it was a funny story.

[dinopoker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYFQS...ed&search=

[gilper]

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When I was in high school I picked the winner of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship 4 years in a row (out of the 64 teams) - knowing absolutely nothing about college basketball:

Kansas ('88), Michigan ('89), UNLV ('90), and Duke ('91).

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This reminds me of the time I filled out my NCAA bracket by asking the magic eight ball who would win each game. It nailed every game on day one and I was starting to believe. The eight ball let me down though with only one pick surviving until the sweet sixteen.

[bigbootch]

The most improbable thing I've ever seen happen is the following: the winning lotto number yesterday was 2, 7, 12, 25, 29, 47. (choices are 1-55) The probability of those 6 numbers being chosen is like one in 29 million. Pretty damn unlikely!

/end nitty joke

[Elandriel]

I just picked a number between 1 and 100.000.000 I picked 24.523.039 Pretty unlikely huh?

[bluesbassman]

It should be noted that you didn't actually randomly "solve" the cube, but rather your pattern-seeking brain noticed it was one permutation away from being solved. Therefore, to calculate the probability of the event, you need to consider the set of all configurations no more than one permutation away from every "solved" state, which includes the number of solved states as a subset.

I haven't done the calculation, but maybe this expands the set of all relevant configurations enough to make the event not as improbable as you first thought.

[Runkmud]

I was once playing darts, I'm a mediocre dart player at best, and I had just lost the game and sat down at our nearby table for a beer. Right after taking a long swig out of my bottle, I declared for no particular reason, "wanna see arrogance?", and threw the dart underhanded, while sitting, at the board. It hit the middle dot, in the middle bullseye.

My brother is an avid golfer, he tries to play at least once a week, I on the other hand could care less, and just go to drink and drive the golf cart. I'm so bad that when I play, I use only a seven iron, a pitching wedge and a putter. On a par three, I scored a hole in one, I don't think he'll ever forgive me for that.

[JasonK]

I hit back-to-back jackpots playing video poker once.

[By-Tor]