What are the odds?

Today is February 12, 2019.

An interesting fact:

Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born on the same day, February 12, 1809, exactly 210 years ago.

Abraham Lincoln is the most important person in United States history.

Charles Darwin is the most important person in the history of the entire world.

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When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a long history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, in the same way as any great mechanical invention is the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous workmen; when we thus view each organic being, how far more interesting - I speak from experience - does the study of natural history become!

— Charles Darwin