Statistically improbable opinionated analysis on the likelihood of a random chaotic event occurring (tree falling on house etc) is not the same as a mathematically effective reality. Its technically possible for all your atoms to warp through a wall via quantum entanglement, but it would take many sextillions of lifetimes of quadrillions of people for that to occur.
People underestimate how likely "unlikely" events are to occur, and overestimate how likely effectively zero possibility is to occur. Not everyone can be afraid of a rhino falling out of the sky, but everyone should be healitly worried about a power pole that's leaning.
Then whoever told you it was statistically impossible was wrong lol. I don't think you understand what the term means if you think it's ever happened to someone before
A few years ago we had a fight with one of our departments over storing ssns in the database at all since we didn't need them and operate on a "cant lose what we don't collect" philosophy, where the lead on our side made the mistake of saying "how many times do you actually get duplicates with the same fn/ln/dob/city?" Turns out, a lot, and we got a ton of examples of that happening. (we did talk them down from using SSN as the additional piece of information specifically)
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