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  • In most cases in order for you to be alive your  parents had to meet assuming that your mother  

  • could meet. Let's say one new person a day  during her prime dating years she would have  

  • met around 10 000 people which in her time was  about 0.00025 percent of the world's population  

  • but because of geographical reasons if we limit  her available Bachelors to about five percent  

  • of the world population she had about a one in  twenty thousand chance of meeting your dad not  

  • super likely and that's just them meeting to  have you the two have to talk to each other  

  • although not necessary go out on a date although  not necessary and eventually conceive a child and  

  • the chance that that combination of sperm cell  and egg turns out to be you is inconceivably  

  • small see your mother has about 300 000 eggs  left by the time she reaches puberty and will  

  • only release around 300 of them furthermore men  produce hundreds of billions of sperm cells in  

  • their lifetimes any of which could reach that egg  feeling pretty rare yet or slightly weirded out

In most cases in order for you to be alive your  parents had to meet assuming that your mother  

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