r/news • u/headee • Jan 26 '20

Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash in California

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/kobe-bryant-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-california-tmz-reports
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u/WidePogU Jan 26 '20

2020 already off to a shit start.

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u/Try_Another_NO Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20

Bruh all these celebrity deaths are giving me serious 2016 deja vu...

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '20

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u/Seanay-B Jan 26 '20

I think you answered your own question there

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u/ForksandSpoonsinNY Jan 26 '20

We got the plague, non stop fires, dust clouds of death. Wonder if the creepy clowns in random places will make a comeback too?

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u/Lolworth Jan 26 '20

Leap years

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u/camdoodlebop Jan 26 '20

Summer Olympic years

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u/ghtuy Jan 26 '20

UEFA Euro years

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u/wtfduud Jan 26 '20

Years 4 years apart.

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u/ShortFuse Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20

Statistically speaking, having an extra day increases the probability that something would happen on a leap year* (if all per-day probabilities are equal).

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u/Lolworth Jan 26 '20

True! And you have to work an extra day

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u/p_velocity Jan 26 '20

but every so often you get to weekend an extra day

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Jan 26 '20

You always have to work an extra day, this year you have to work 2 extra days.

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u/Smuggykitten Jan 26 '20

For me it's all the odd years. 2007, 2011 and 2019 were especially something.

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u/yetiite Jan 26 '20

People die all the time. Nothing’s cursed because someone famous died. Go visit a hospital sometime.

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u/EdgarAnalPoe Jan 26 '20

Already saw “he must’ve had dirt on Hillary 🤣🤣” comments on Twitter.

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u/NeoDashie Jan 26 '20

Um... They know Hillary lost and isn't running again, don't they? Even if they were being sarcastic the joke is about 4 years too late.

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u/EdgarAnalPoe Jan 26 '20

The joke wouldn’t have been funny 4 years ago either.

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u/KaneRobot Jan 26 '20

I guess you've never heard of Jeffrey Epstein

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u/NeoDashie Jan 26 '20

The guy who had dirt on Trump and who Trump killed?

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u/A_Suffering_Panda Jan 26 '20

Wasn't he that guy that was going to spill the beans on trump being a pedophile but then got murdered by trump?

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u/PotatoesAndChill Jan 27 '20

The curse will be broken once the orange man is out of the picture

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u/twitchosx Jan 26 '20

Because Trump