while my sister and I were on the train yesterday, we heard an older couple mention it was the husband's birthday, and a lady with a little boy chimed in that it was his birthday also, and then I was like "um it is my birthday also?" it was very cute but also a little weird
Happy belated! Too bad it was just a train -- you could have *killed* joking about literally hopping on a bandwagon.
you get a birthday! you get a birthday! everyone gets a birthday!! 😂
people be fuckin' to stay warm in the cold winter nights.
did this kick off a final destination situation or what?
My mom and I share the same birthday! It rules.
lol you literally lived the lyrics of that Beatles birthday song
That's when the sun disappeared behind a blood red moon. Anyway the rest is kind of a blur but what a coinkydink
birthdays? triples makes it safe. triples is best
Happy belated birthday. Hope you have many more and Adonis gives you a really cool present.
HAP BELAT BERF
i love this thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthda...
I don't remember the actual stat, but in a fairly small group, I believe it was 30 ish there is a high probability that at least two will share a birthday.
It’s a fun bit of math but at 23 people in a group the chances of two people sharing the same birthday is over 50%
*at not over
especially if the day is 9 months after a major holiday, as my september-born wife can tell you (happy new year, indeed) 😏
I don’t think that actually factors into the math haha en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthda...
Birthday day! (Happy birthday!)
Happy post Cait day! Looking forward to the Adonis freak out pics with 3 moms.
Almost sounds like the beginning of an Agatha Christie or a screwball comedy. Or both.
I was on a student trip of about 30 people. On a bus ride I was talking to one of the group leaders, got to talking about birth dates on the student list and I mention the birthday paradox. While explaining it (or as much as I understood), I discovered that she and I had the same birthday.
This went from cute story to twilight zone episode so fast
Congratulations-- you just *narrowly* avoided being in a very bad M. Night Shyamalan movie.
Happy Birthday!
Happy belated birthday!!
Happy belated cait! I hope you had a wonderful day!
M Night Shyamalan presents BIRTHDAY TRAIN
😶
happy belated bday :3
Happy birthday 🎂 (belated)
Happy belated birthday. I give my blessing for you to party on as long as you like!
John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt, his birth is my birth too!
The odds of three random people having the same birthday is 1/365^3 = 0.0000000206 😮
somebody shoulda brought a cake
hbd
I realized yesterday that I personally know 8 people with 8/28 as their birthday! What a day!
Happy birthday Cait!!
the little boy's mom clearly thought I was fucking with them until I took out my ID and showed them. I honestly expected more people to chime in Spartacus style
this happened to me on my very first day of college - i was sitting outside having a smoke (sorry, it was 1997) and i heard two people next to me talking and they figured out they had the same birthday (down to the year). i just slowly turned to them and handed them my license. we were all like WHAT
It's my birthday, my boss's birthday, and a good friend of mine from a previous job's birthday. Something about this time of year.
End of November - end of December, lots of celebrating.
New Year's Eve babies!
We're entering the most popular birthday time of year!
Happy birthday ❤️
in a group of 23 people odds of 2 people having the same birthday is about 50%. so it's not as wild as you think! 3 people however is extremely odd but i haven't done the maths for that
Hbd
Oh, hey, belated happy birthday I guess! Thanks for making me chuckle now and then! :P
And then a mysterious man with a big cartoon villain mustache walks in from the other train car "I'm sure you're all wondering why I've gathered you all here today, on this, your collective birthday *muahaha*"
my sister was like "this train is for sure going to crash"
Many years ago I walked into a Verizon store to get a new phone and it turned out the person behind the counter was my birthday twin! They showed me their id to show me they weren’t lying to try and sell me anything. We became friends for a while. I designed their album cover for them.
It was mine too yesterday if that helps
Same. I swear I never knew anyone with a birthday in this part of August.
my sister was quietly like "oh this train is for sure going to crash"
I was gonna say that's how a final destination movie would start or something lol
exactly!!!
An example of the birthday problem in the wild. Damn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthda...
hey happy birthday bud
Sounds like a lot of parents had a pretty fun Thanksgiving holiday weekend… happy birthday BTW…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthda...
Birthday Party!! 🎂
You'd think births would be evenly distributed across the year, but they're not. August, especially late August, is very popular. I can think of four friends of mine who have all had birthdays in the past week. One of them shares a birthday with you. Another one shares a birthday with me.
That meant that their mom’s were getting busy at the same time Two of my siblings were born in June & and the other two were born in November. Which translates to my mother birthday or my parent’s anniversary.
Yeah this kind of things will happen more and more as the CIA are cloning us human-alien hybrids but changing our appearences
TIL birthdays are genetic
Well, just another fuckery the CIA did I guess
that “in a room of 23 people, there is a 50% chance two of them will have the same birthday” thing never ceases to blow my mind in how it appears to field test so well.
Yeah but this is also “on the day of my birthday” too which raises the probability of occurring by 365!
My fiancé and I love this fact, because we share a birthday, so we fuck this up for everyone else who shares a room with us.
People always bring up this statistic, but I have never once met someone with my same birthday. 😭
I don't know if I have offhand but I've met like 2-3 people that are one day off. Per the math of the birthday problem (I linked the Wiki article in another reply), it's actually incredibly likely you'll find someone that close sooner or later.
What is your trick? Because I know like a dozen. My fiancé and I share a birthday, one of our family member’s DOG has the same birthday. It’s not even a super common birthday apparently, we just are find the others so easily.
I haven’t either. I’ve known multiple friends/acquaintances with birthdays a day before and a day after (my husband is the latter, crazily enough) but not my exact day.
Same! Always a day before or after, even in those gacha video games where all the characters have birthdays! 😭
geez. in one high school spanish class i had three february 29ths.
That's actually crazy. 🤯 My school only had one Feb 29 kid. He always went around saying he was 4 uears old. 😆 I wonder if some birthdays are just specifically less likely. 🤷🏽♂️
ALL THREE KIDS BROUGHT IN SHITTY PIE PLATE MICROWAVE CAKES FOR THE CLASS WITH “4” CANDLES IN THEM.
also, the answer is not really. iirc september has the most popular birth dates; august is the most popular birth month; late november is the least common week.
"From 1994 to 2014, 9 of the 10 most common birthdays in the US fell in September." www.thebump.com/a/most-commo...
Oops, forgot to include confirmation that August is the most common month and September, oddly, only fourth most common. (Also from that article. Similar data www.babycenter.com/family/birth...)
my birthday is the last day of November, and while I've never met anyone with the same birthday, I've always known tons of people with birthdays within a week or two of mine. weird how experience shakes out sometimes
damn happy belated
