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Bad analogy. Fixed:

Once a day, you roll a dice with 3,650,000 sides. Only one of them shows a solar eclipse. On the day of the 200-year solar eclipse, the dice shows the solar eclipse side. Not a coincidence.

You're incorrectly applying a basic abstract statistical principle to a complicated real-world situation.




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