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Birthday coincidences and near-misses in science trivia
Readers are asked to evaluate odds of shared birthdays in a 183 person room, with the answer citing 50 percent with 23 people and near certainty for a same birthday in 183. The piece also notes enormous gold production, asteroid Torino scale risk for Apophis, and an anecdote on laughter and resilience from a car accident story.
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Edward Burger
Michael Starbird
Torino
New Scientist Magazine
NASA
Earth
New Scientist
Harvard
Brian Marsden
Ann Gary
Jodi M
Parker
Colorado