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by maxbond 1051 days ago
Interestingly random events like this do tend to cluster. There are lots of arrangements where clusters exist and very few where it doesn't, so clustering is a lower entropy state. Plane crashes are similar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/109390/how-odd-is-...