My grandmother's great uncle (so talking about the late 1800s) was killed by lightning while out on horseback during a storm. Pretty crazy odds huh?
For something spicier, around the end of Italy's involvement in WWII Mussolini called his followers to move to the north of Italy. My aunt's family were fascists (my aunt was a child at the time) and they were planning on going there too with this bus that was gathering fascists to move them all north. My aunt's family had one massive trunk with all their belongings and it didn't fit into the bus so they were forced to stay... Which was ultimately a good thing because that bus was stopped by the partisans who gunned everyone down before reaching Milan. So my aunt dodged a bullet, both figuratively and literally oof
Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I'll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog's harness