Friday, August 24, 2007

The Odds

Odds of bowling a 300 game: 11,500 to 1
Odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime: 3 to 1
Odds of being born a twin in North America: 90 to 1
Odds of being on plane with a drunken pilot: 117 to 1
Odds of catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 563 to 1
Odds of becoming a pro athlete: 22,000 to 1
Odds of finding a four-leaf clover on first try: 10,000 to 1
Odds of a person in the military winning the Medal of Honor: 11,000 to 1
Odds of striking it rich on Antiques Roadshow: 60,000 to 1
Odds of becoming president: 10,000,000 to 1
Odds of winning the California lottery: 13,000,000 to 1
Odds of a meteor landing on your house: 182,138,880,000,000 to 1
Odds of dying from a car accident: 1 in 18,585
Odds of dying in an airplane accident: 1 in 354,319
Odds of dying in a terrorist attack while visiting a foreign country: 1 in 650,000
Odds of dying from being bitten by a dog: 1 in 700,000
Odds of getting a hole in one: 5,000 to 1
Odds of injury from using a chain saw: 4,464 to 1
Odds of injury from mowing the lawn: 3,623 to 1
Odds of drowning in a bathtub: 685,000 to 1
Odds of being killed sometime in the next year in any sort of transportation accident: 77 to 1
Odds of being killed in any sort of non-transportation accident: 69 to 1
Odds of being struck by lightning: 576,000 to 1
Odds of being killed by lightning: 2,320,000 to 1
Odds of being murdered: 18,000 to 1
Odds of getting away with murder: 2 to 1
Odds of getting canonized: 20,000,000 to 1
Odds of being an astronaut: 13,200,000 to 1
Odds of Winning an Olympic medal: 662,000 to 1

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