Being sucked out of a plane mid-air. Swimming away after his train crashed into a river. Being hit by a bus and walking away from a (different!) bus crash. His car swerving off the road and plummeting off the side of a cliff.Two separate car explosions. Over the course of his life, Frane Selak survived every single one of these accidents. "You could look at it two ways," Selak said in an interview. "I was either the unluckiest man in the world, or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter." This is Just The Gist (MINI) of the unluckiest, luckiest man to ever live (so he says...) Frano 'Frane' Selak.

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'The Seven Unbelievable Survival Stories of Frane Selak' (All That's Interesting 2024): https://allthatsinteresting.com/frane-selak

'Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World?' (Ripley's 2018): https://web.archive.org/web/20211205143729/https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/unluckiest-man/

'#BBCtrending: Is the 'world's luckiest man' being exploited?' (BBC News 2014): https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-27414609

'Frano Selak, world's luckiest man' gives away his lottery fortune' (The Telegraph 2010): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7721985/Frano-Selak-worlds-luckiest-man-gives-away-his-lottery-fortune.html

'Doritos googles up unlikely spokesperson' (Ad Age 2004) https://adage.com/article/the-world-ad-age-global-news-data/doritos-googles-spokesman/99131/

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