21 of the Luckiest People Ever That Shouldn't Be
These people have defied death, made unbelievable discoveries, or have gotten extremely lucky. Some of these are dumb luck and ok, most of these are some really dumb luck. And now someone has the biggest gold nugget ever.
These people have defied death, made unbelievable discoveries, or have gotten extremely lucky. Some of these are dumb luck and ok, most of these are some really dumb luck. And now someone has the biggest gold nugget ever.
1
Orlando Bloom is pretty lucky having broken his left arm, left leg, right wrist, right leg, ribs, 3 skull fractures, nose, and back.
2
Bill Morgan was declared dead for 14 minutes before coming back to life. He then bought two scratch tickets winning a car and $250,000.
3
Elmer Sherwin played the same slot machine twice and won $4.6 million and $21 million.
4
Juliane Koepcke was a lone survivor of 92 passengers when her plane went down.
5
Timothy Dexter bought outdated currency for pennies, not long after the currency came back into use.
6
Kevin Hillier found the world's largest gold nugget while beach combing, valued over a million dollars.
7
Yorgos Kentrotas found the famous Venus de Milo statue while collecting stones.
8
Frane Selak survived his military training falling into a lake, multiple car crashes, a bus driving into a river, a shooting, and somehow falling out of a plane and landed in a pile of hay.
9
Lena Pahlsson lost her wedding ring, then found it around a carrot while pulling vegetables.
10
Adolphe Sax, the saxophone creator, should have been killed as a child. He had fallen from three stories and hit his head on a rock, drank a bowl of sulfuric acid, swallowed a needle, burned himself with gunpowder, fell on a hot skillet, almost drowned, stuck in the head by falling cobblestones, and should have died from inhaling the fumes of furniture varnish multiple times over.
11
Nichiren, a 13th century Buddhist monk, was spared execution when a beam of light from the moon struck his executioner and blinded him.
12
Mohammad Basheer Adul Khada was in a plane crash, survived that plane crash, and even won on the lotto ticket he bought before boarding. This all happened on the same day.
13
Michael Sparks bought one of only 35 original copies of the declaration of independence for $2.48. He thought it was just a cheap copy, but ended up selling it for half a million dollars.
14
Roy Sullivan has been struck by lightning 7 times over 35 years.
15
A couple in California found $10 million dollars worth of gold coins hidden in cans buried in the ground.
16
Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings.
17
Chris Duddy and Michael Benson survived a helicopter crash into a volcano.
18
Joan Ginther has won 4 multi-million dollar jackpots totaling $20 million.
19
Robert Hamilton won a million dollars off a scratch ticket, then did it again when he bought a second ticket.
20
David Gonzalez found a copy of Action Comics #1 inside a wall, it is valued at over $100,000.
21
Andrew Jackson survived an assassination when both pistols misfired that the assailant tried to kill him with.
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