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You're Far More Likely To Experience These Extreme Weather Events Than To Fill Out a Perfect NCAA Tournament Bracket

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Hit By a Tornado: Once Every 913,125 Days
According to Dr. Greg Forbes, severe weather expert at The Weather Channel, that's how often a tornado touches down in a particular spot in the central U.S. (approximately once every 2,500 years). Elsewhere in the U.S., the odds dip to roughly once in more than 10,000 years. (Eric Francis/Getty Images)

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Hit By a Tornado: Once Every 913,125 Days
According to Dr. Greg Forbes, severe weather expert at The Weather Channel, that's how often a tornado touches down in a particular spot in the central U.S. (approximately once every 2,500 years). Elsewhere in the U.S., the odds dip to roughly once in more than 10,000 years. (Eric Francis/Getty Images)

The NCAA Basketball Tournament is underway, and you're probably checking your bracket every few minutes to see if it's in good shape or in danger of getting thrown into the garbage, or a fireplace.

You're not alone. As experience teaches us, it's not easy to predict the future (unless you're a meteorologist). In fact, mathematicians say the odds of filling out a perfect bracket are a mind-blowing 1 in 9.2 quintillion.

That's 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, according to USA Today. As you can see in the slideshow above, you're far more likely to experience extreme weather events than that.

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The odds of a perfect bracket may be altered slightly each year, depending on myriad factors within the sport, but one fact never changes: it's far more important to pore over your family's emergency plan than to spend all that time filling out a handful of brackets.

H/T Live Science