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Why Two out of 23 People in a Room Will Likely Share a Birthday

By Sara Silverstein

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This video originally appeared on Business Insider.

How the “birthday paradox” can be used to explain a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances.

Follow Business Insider Video on YouTube and watch more videos: We Asked Bill Nye About Interstellar—and He Had One Big Issue With It

News & Politics

Politics

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Business

Moneybox

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Everybody’s Favorite New Myth About Millennials: They’re Bad at Saving

Amazon’s Standoff With Hachette Over E-Books Is Finally Over

Walmart Will Match Amazon’s Prices This Holiday Season

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Life

Outward

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A Quaker Printer’s Early–19th-Century Attempt to Convince New Yorkers of the Horrors of Slavery

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Double X

The XX Factor

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The Devastating Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Competitive Swimming

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India’s Ugly History of Coerced Sterilization

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Slate Plus

Slate Archives

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Arts

Brow Beat

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Azealia Banks Pays Tribute to the Great Women of Pop in Her New Video

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Scars That Reveal History and Beauty

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Technology

Future Tense

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Judge Rules That Even if Iran Owes You Money, You Can’t Just Take Its Top-Level Domains

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Every Airline Should Use This Genius Armrest Design

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Health & Science

Bad Astronomy

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When We Reached Out Into Space and Grasped a Comet

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Sports

Sports Nut

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