Places I lived.
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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1. I was waiting in line at hardware store in Houston when a long plank someone had leaned against the counter slid down and bonked me on the head. I had to sit down for a minute, stunned. After a few minutes, the cashier said he had taken the name and address off the check of the customer whose plank it was (in case i wanted to pursue it, although it should be store responsible, not the customer). I did not want to, but I took a glance at it-- the address was an apartment building I had previously lived at, including the same apartment number.
2. I met a girl in a bar and we were chatting. We found out that we had both lived in a 4-apt. building called the Red Barn (shaped and painted like a barn) and in the same exact apartment.
3. I rented a place in Birmingham that later I found out from my mother that my parents' close friends had lived in when we were little children and I had played in that apartment.
4. When I was 12, my tennis teacher married my piano teacher and moved into my old house (which had previously been sold to someone else).
Date submitted:Mon, 01 Dec 2014 18:38:37 +0000Coincidence ID:7920