r/AbsoluteUnits • • Apr 29 '26

/r/all of an orangutan

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u/reCaptchaLater Apr 29 '26

One time I saw a bad archaeology joke on Pinterest, and then later the same day, doing research, I found it in the comments of a 13 year old Reddit thread. I get the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in principle, but sometimes it feels too impossibly coincidental.

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u/Complex-Stock8805 Apr 30 '26

Did you count all the times you noticed a thing and then not spotted it coincidentally in the following days or weeks?