Strangely linked
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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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My mum needed to pick up a hire car and I didn't drive at the time, so my friends mum offered to drive mum and I into town to pick it up. My friend and I had known each other for around 5 years at this point, but our mothers had never spent any time together. The four of us were in the car and my Mum was staring at my friends Mum very intently. When I asked what she was doing, she announced that my friends Mum was in fact my Dads first wife (my parents had long been divorced too so there was no awkwardness). This had all happened before my friend was born so she wasn't a long lost sister or anything. But after 5 years of friendship, my friend and I discovered that our mothers had both been married to the same man.
Date submitted:Tue, 23 Sep 2014 10:17:44 +0000Coincidence ID:7793
