If you think that you are unlucky or something is going wrong, believe me, there are people who are much worse. Some inhabitants of our planet are simply doomed to live with terrible defects, and there are those who can be called obvious outsiders among others.
And against their background, many problems seem insignificant and not so terrible. Take a look at this list of people.
1. Big lottery win
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The whole village won the lottery except for one guy. Every year on the eve of Catholic Christmas in Spain, large sums of money are drawn in the El Gordo lottery, which translates as "Fat Man".
The residents of a tiny village called Sodeto have long celebrated their joint win in the Christmas lottery. 70 families, with the exception of one single man, decided to buy lottery tickets and mark the same number, which, in the end, turned out to be lucky.
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The total winnings were $ 950 million. This fabulous money was divided among all the inhabitants of the town. A happy accident in a matter of hours made almost all the inhabitants of a small Spanish town rich.
As a result, ordinary farmers, construction workers, and unemployed residents have become wealthy people. Each received several million dollars and thanked Providence for taking the risk of participating in this lottery.
However, among all these lucky ones, there was still one unfortunate named Costis Mitsotakis. The poor fellow simply ignored the opportunity to purchase a ticket and mark the winning number for the company with everyone.
Or, more likely, the women in the housewives' association who sold the tickets forgot to knock on Kostis's door. As a result, he became the only one in the village who was left without a prize fund.
2. Lightning strike into a person
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They say lightning will not strike twice at the same place or at the same object. However, the American Roy Sullivan became famous due to the fact that lightning struck him seven times.
The young ranger of the National Park in Shenandoah, Virginia, made the Guinness Book of World Records as the most frequently hit by lightning. This kind of record for the number of strikes by a terrible element made Sullivan famous all over the world.
The chances of being struck by lightning are approximately 1 in 3000. And to get hit by lightning 7 times you need to "try hard". The poor fellow should obviously be counted among the unlucky. However, after so many lightning strikes, the American survived. Perhaps he is lucky?
If you think that after the next trouble Roy has become more careful, then you are mistaken. He didn't sit at home or avoid the weather. The last lightning strike caught the American fishing.
In addition to this trouble, Roy was attacked by a bear. However, being not even in the best physical shape, the American managed to cope with the animal and return the fish, which the bear intended to steal. This fishing, according to Sullivan himself, will be remembered for a long time. Indeed, in addition to the already familiar lightning, an animal also attacked him.
3. stray bullet
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Henry Zeigland could be called lucky if you did not know the whole story to the end. Back in 1883, a young man broke up with his bride. From grief, the girl fell into a terrible depression, and after long tears and suffering, she laid hands on herself.
The elder brother of the unfortunate suicide promised to avenge his sister. He vowed to kill Henry and, after tracking him down at night, shot the young man. The bullet flew close to the face, but did not hit him, but got stuck in the trunk of a tree. Considering the sister's abuser dead, the man fired the last bullet into himself.
However, Henry was lucky. He wasn't even hurt. Having received only minor scratches, the young man safely got home, after which he considered himself a real lucky one.
But the story did not end there. Many years later, Zeigland decided to cut down the tree in which the bullet that was once meant for him was stuck. The task was not easy, so Henry decided to blow it up with a few sticks of dynamite.
As a result of the explosion, the released bullet flew right into the head of the unfortunate man. Zeigland died on the spot. It was rumored that the bullet had been waiting for its victim all these years and at the most unexpected moment it had insidiously and despicably avenged itself.
4. The hairiest man
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Ladies, dissatisfied with the fact that their men are too hairy, probably find fault. Since it is difficult to imagine as much hair as Yu Junchang has on his body. This Chinese man is officially recognized as the hairy man in the world.
As a result of a rare disease, almost 96 percent of the man's body was covered with dense vegetation. The poor man underwent an operation to remove hair from his ears, as his hearing began to deteriorate. And the doctors urgently had to intervene so that Yu Junchan would not become deaf.
It will not be an exaggeration to say that because of the abundant vegetation on the body, many people mistake the Chinese for an animal. Hair does not grow only on the palms and soles of a man's feet. Experts have calculated that on average there are 41 hairs per square centimeter. Doctors call such a rare disease atavism.
However, the guy did not become depressed. On the contrary, Junchang decided to become famous due to his unusual appearance. On the website www.maohai.com, the hairiest man in the world posts his pictures. A lot of people visit his page every day.
Thus, an enterprising and not desperate Chinese man decided to "promote" himself and become a new star of our time. It is also known that the dream of a hairy Chinese man is to marry a good girl and create a complete family.
5 unhappy woman
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The most unhappy woman lives in America. Melanie Martinez, a native of Louisiana, lost 4 houses in 4 terrible elements. Her last home disappeared in 2005 when the infamous Hurricane Katrina hit the city. After which Melanie got the title of the most unlucky woman in the New World.
However, the troubles in the woman's life were just beginning. The organizers of the popular American TV show decided to help the unfortunate woman. Her temporary dilapidated housing has been transformed beyond recognition.
A whole team of specialists worked for a week to make her humble home a home suitable for a normal life. About $ 20,000 was spent to make a good renovation and equip the house with the necessary appliances.
According to Melanie herself, for a while she even began to consider herself the happiest woman in the world. However, fate decreed otherwise, preventing the woman from enjoying her new home for a long time.
On August 29, on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another disaster struck the town. The merciless hurricane Isaac demolished all the houses in the area, and he did not spare Melanie's new home. Once again, a natural disaster caused the Martinez family to remain on the street.
The woman herself and her entire family were rescued by boat along with five cats and three dogs. Everything else was lost. Within 10 years, the woman lost five houses in five elements. However, Melanie herself considers it a miracle that she and all her family members survived.
Perhaps the salvation of a woman lies in moving to a town that natural disasters bypass.
6. Unlucky person
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John Line was recognized as the most unlucky person in Foggy Albion. During his short life, the Briton several times got into car accidents, survived a lightning strike, fell from a cliff. In total, the man was on the verge of death 16 times.
A series of failures has haunted Mr. Line since birth. He was the fifth child in a poor peasant family. He was born with a congenital lung disease.
Doctors did not give any comforting predictions about whether the baby would survive or not. However, thanks to special care and medications, the boy managed to get back on his feet. But a series of failures followed him throughout his later life.
The first most dangerous moment for his life arose when the baby was barely one and a half years old. The child discovered a bottle with a very strong disinfectant. Childhood curiosity prompted little Line to be taken to the hospital, where doctors gave him a gastric lavage. Thanks to the prompt intervention of doctors, the baby was saved.
And as a teenager, he found himself in another unpleasant situation. The boy fell from a tree and broke his right arm. On the way to the hospital, the bus, which was young John, had a serious accident, as a result of which the boy injured his left arm. When he nevertheless reached the hospital, the doctors stated that both limbs were fractured. It should be added that it was Friday, the thirteenth.
7. The tree man is a disease
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Indonesian Dede Koswara was born absolutely healthy. However, at the age of 10, the boy fell in the forest and injured his knees. Apparently, a strange infection got into the scratches, after which warts began to form around the wound.
Then they slowly began to spread over the entire leg. And later, strange warts appeared on the boy's arms. Over the years, the guy watched helplessly as his limbs were transformed.
The disease attacked the man slowly but surely. The warts undermined his health, consumed all his energy and, worst of all, almost completely immobilized Dede.
He began to move with difficulty on blackened and heavy legs. Hands also refused to serve him. The Indonesian became like a leper tree. The warts grew and began to resemble huge tree branches, and Cosvara himself began to resemble an unusual plant.
The man's mysterious illness cost him his marriage, career and independence. In order to somehow feed himself and not die of hunger, he had to join a group of touring artists. The circus performance, in which an unusual patient participated, was called "a performance with the participation of a man - a tree."
It is known that the poor man suffers from two diseases: the widespread papilloma virus, which leads to the formation of new warts in case of some kind of infection, and also a rare immune deficiency, which allows viruses to spread faster in Dede's body.
Last year, Indonesian doctors used an electric laser to remove a huge number of warts. Doctors removed almost 4 meters of the surface of the body, infected with a strange disease. However, the warts soon grew back.
8. Hiroshima and Nagasaki - aftermath
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Tsutomu Yamaguchi is officially recognized as the only person in the world to survive the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6, 1945, a young engineer Yamaguchi, due to circumstances, ended up in Hiroshima. It was at this moment that the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on the city.
Of the 350,000 inhabitants, 140,000 died instantly. Compared to others, Yamaguchi was not significantly affected. He received only minor burns to his body, and his eardrum also suffered. A young Japanese man spent the night in a bomb shelter, where the wounded moaned around.
The next day, Yamaguchi bought a train ticket to his hometown. It should be added that Nagasaki is located 288 kilometers from Hiroshima. At that time, both cities were an important industrial and military base.
On August 9, another nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which also caused the death of thousands of people. Yamaguchi was completely deaf in one ear and suffered more severe burns to his body.
Over the next 12 years, he regularly had to change the bandages on his body so that the wounds did not ooze and they did not get infection. From radioactive substances, like many Japanese, Tsutomu's wife earned a serious cancer for life.
However, she lived a long life and died in 2008 from kidney and liver cancer. Their son, also exposed to radiation at six months, died in 2005 at the age of 59.
Before his death from stomach cancer, Yamaguchi became an ardent participant in the anti-nuclear campaign. However, in his entire life, the Japanese have never said bad things about the Americans.
9. Dynamite and the dog
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One day, a young resident of Minnesota, Harry Jenkins (Harry Jenkins) and two of his friends went fishing. The lake that the friends chose for fishing was completely icy. To punch a hole in the ice faster, Jenkins decided to use dynamite.
When a block of dynamite was thrown in the right direction, the young people saw with horror how their dog ran towards the dynamite, mistaking it for a stick that was thrown for her.
In front of the frightened people, the dog picked up dynamite and, despite the cries of the men, began to move towards them, happily wagging its tail. All three realized that they were in danger and the situation was worse than they thought.
Saving their lives, the friends ran in the opposite direction. The dog, taking everything that was happening for a fun game, began to chase after them. The men were on the verge of death. However, the blast wave did not overtake them.
The dog died, and the crack formed by the explosion in the ice where Jenkens' car was parked began to grow until it swallowed the vehicle. The car went to the bottom of the lake.
The misfortunes did not end there. On top of all of Jenkins' troubles, the insurance company refused to pay the sum of money that the car owner usually receives in the event of such an accident.