Can anybody explain the birthday paradox

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If you take a group of people born in a non leap year you would need 366 people for a 100% chance that someone shares a birthday but only 23 people for a 50% chance that somebody shares a birthday?

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My work department has 23 people. There is one shared birthday. Mine.

I’ve never heard of this paradox but the numbers freaked me out

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