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Stories of Unfortunate Luck and Narrow Escapes
TLDR This podcast episode shares stories of individuals who have experienced incredibly bad luck, such as selling their stake in Apple before it became a billion-dollar company, being kicked out of the Beatles right before they achieved fame, and surviving multiple terrorist attacks.
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This podcast episode explores cases of people with really bad luck, including stories of narrowly escaping trouble and getting out of tickets.
05:01
Ron Wayne, one of the original partners of Apple computers, made a poor business decision and sold his 10% stake in the company for $2,300, missing out on the opportunity to become an instant millionaire and potentially worth close to $100 billion.
10:16
Ron Wayne auctioned off his original Apple contract for $500, which was later sold for almost $1.6 million, but he did okay in life and became Eddie Money's tour manager.
15:53
Pete Best, the former Beatles drummer, is considered the unluckiest man in music because he didn't have the necessary skills to be a Beatle.
21:13
Pete Best was a drummer for the Beatles before they became famous, but was kicked out of the band right before they achieved success.
26:16
A woman named Melanie Martinez had the misfortune of having five houses destroyed by hurricanes, including one that was featured on a reality show and destroyed just weeks later.
31:27
In Mumbai, India, a luxury hotel was attacked in a terrorist attack, resulting in the deaths of 174 people, but the survivors of this attack had also survived the three biggest terrorist attacks in the West in the 21st century.
36:28
Alexander Graham Bell is believed by many to have stolen the idea for the telephone from Italian inventor Antonio Meucci, who filed a preliminary patent for a telephone-like device in the US five years before Bell, and even sued him over it, but the case was thrown out after Meucci's death.
42:01
In 2011, the town of Soudetto in Spain won the annual El Gordo lottery, with every household winning a minimum of $130,000, except for one man named Costas Mitsotakis who didn't buy a ticket but decided to make a documentary about it instead.
47:25
Richard Joule, a security guard at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, was initially hailed as a hero for spotting a backpack containing a bomb and evacuating the area, but he was later falsely accused of being the bomber before being cleared by the FBI.
52:38
Frane Cilek, who claimed to be the luckiest man in the world, may have made up all of his stories about narrowly escaping death and winning the lottery.
57:43
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