"What are the odds?" It's a question we often ask ourselves when something unexpected happens. "Why did that happen to me, when it seems so unlikely?" But on an Earth with over eight billion people walking all over it, it is overwhelmingly likely that something unlikely will happen. Someone is going to win the lottery, someone is going to lose it all on a sure bet. 

These 22 people took to Ask Reddit and shared what they believed to be the most improbable thing that has ever happened to them. The most popular response to the prompt came from a man who claimed to have landed a summer job that had him roaming the Canadian forests looking for traces of Uranium. "I think that's unusual enough," one person commented," but it gets much weirder. "The theory was if you found a boulder that was 'hot' one could trace it back to where it originated and maybe a Uranium mine is found," he said.

One day, his machine started going crazy, but not for a rock, rather a little piece of moss. Unsure what to do, he packaged the piece of moss. Upon inspection, it was determined that the moss contained a radioactive isotope from the crashed Soviet Kosmos satellite. What are the odds?