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<p><br />Put 23 people in a room and there is a statistical probability of 50% that two of them have the same birthday.</p>



<p>Increase the number of people to 70, and the odds are 99.9% two of them will celebrate their birth on the same date.</p>



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<p>Not convinced? <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem">See the math here.</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/registries/birthday?_encoding=UTF8&amp;linkCode=ib1&amp;tag=commonplacefa-20&amp;linkId=a7ac32a51b00140e55be1f1cf98c04a3&amp;ref_=ihub_curatedcontent_e530913d-9091-4a1b-be7e-5884d05f5245" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Develop your Amazon birthday gift list here</a>.</p>



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