19 Facts About Life That Will Give You An Existential Crisis
BuzzFeed - Latest 2015-07-21
Summary:
You are actually really tiny.
There are some facts about life that are hard to imagine, like the fact that you were once a tiny egg just 0.1mm across.
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And in a single ejaculation between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells raced to fertilise that egg.
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That fertilised egg eventually became you. And then you became one of over 7 billion people currently on this planet.
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Even though that number sounds enormous, if every single person was placed in a heap in the Grand Canyon it would barely fill it.
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