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* [[Adolf Hitler]] survived dozens of assassination attempts, most of them by sheer luck.
* In one of the few instances where alcohol actually did something good, [[Seth MacFarlane]] slept-in with a hangover on the morning of September 11 and missed his flight-Flight 11 to be exact.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111210151611/http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2006/09/11/a_friend_kept_mark_wahlberg_off_doomed_9 Mark Wahlberg] was about to take one of these flights too, but decided to fly to Canada instead and visit one of his friends.
* Whether this qualifies as "lucky" or "unlucky" is debatable, but a man named Tsutomu Yamaguchi has the dubious distinction of surviving ''both'' the nuclear strikes on Japan during World War II. He was in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped, was injured and spent the night there before returning to his hometown. [[It Got Worse|Which was]] [[Doomed Hometown|Nagasaki.]] He survived again and lived to the ripe old age of 93. If that's not simultaneously the worst ''and'' best luck in the world, then what is?
** Even more than that, Yamaguchi returned to Nagasaki still significantly injured, so he went to see a doctor. The doctor asked him how he had been injured, and ''as Yamaguchi was explaining the vaporization of Hiroshima, the second bomb dropped''. In the middle of his explanation. That's remarkable coincidence.
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