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Flipping a coin and getting heads… 28 times in a row

Illustration: Natali _ Mis
Illustration: Natali _ Mis (Getty Images)

A run of luck like this seems impossible, right? Flipping a coin and getting the same result more than two dozen times is incredibly unlikely. You’d probably doubt your own eyes—or your own sanity— if you saw it happen. But guess what? With odds of 1 in 268,435,456, it’s still more likely to happen than winning the lottery.