The human brain is designed to find patterns, even in chaos. Statisticians have a term for this — apophenia — and they use it to explain why coincidences feel meaningful even when they are, mathematically, merely inevitable. With billions of events happening across thousands of years of recorded history, improbable alignments are not just possible — they’re expected. That said, knowing this does almost nothing to make these particular coinciden…
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