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  • Some things in life are surprising

  • But did you know that most alcohol beverages

  • contain all 13 minerals necessary to sustain human life?

  • or that approximately one percent of the world's population

  • is drunk at any given moment?

  • maybe you're one of them.

  • Or how about the fact that a single sperm has

  • has the equivalent of 37.5 megabytes of DNA information in it?

  • This means that a normal ejaculation

  • acquaints to a data transfer of over 1500 terabytes.

  • Tell that to an iguana, koala or Komodo dragon

  • which all have two penises.

  • Or better yet, the kangaroo

  • which actually has three vaginas.

  • The male octopus, on the other hand

  • often tears of its mating arm

  • places it inside the female

  • and then swims off somewhere to die.

  • How romantic.

  • The average person walks the equivalent of three times

  • around the world in a lifetime.

  • Meanwhile, if the population of China walk pass you in a single foul line

  • it would take about 30 years

  • considering the rate of reproduction.

  • but after only 2 weeks,

  • a pair of their pants will have grown 1000 bacteria on the front

  • 2500 on the back, and 10,000 on the crotch.

  • And did you know that the Apple iPhone is the

  • second best-selling product of all time,

  • after the Rubik's cube?

  • which actually has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations.

  • Much like a deck of cards, which, when shuffled

  • will result in a configuration that has never existed ever before.

  • How can this be?

  • The simple mathematical calculation shows that

  • the possible arrangements of a deck of cards

  • are monumental

  • Or how about the fact that

  • oxygen is required for combustion

  • and hydrogen is flammable gas, but together,

  • they make water, which puts fire out.

  • Before the eraser was invented,

  • bread was used to remove pencil marks,

  • while peanut butter, under extremely high pressure,

  • can be turned into diamonds?

  • That's...one useful sandwich.

  • And if you feel like a warm cup of coffee with that,

  • Try yelling for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days

  • which should produce enough sound energy

  • to heat your coffee up.

  • Strange as it may be, the brain actually named itself

  • and finally, a physicist studying atoms,

  • is really just atoms trying to understand themselves.

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Some things in life are surprising

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