How Lucky Are You To Be Alive?

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Spoiler alert: you’re kind of a miracle.

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SPECIAL THANKS:
Jeffrey Bergen
Professor of Mathematics
DePaul University

MUSIC
Heart Wish
Licensed via Warner Chappell Production Music Inc.

SFX provided by Audioblocks. 
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STILLS
Statue of David by Michelangelo / Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Statue_of_David_by_Michelangelo_(15609869928).jpg
Vénus de Milo (11368633915) / Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:V%C3%A9nus_de_Milo_(11368633915).jpg

SOURCES
http://scienceline.org/2008/06/ask-olson-sperm/
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/healthy_living/hic_Coping_with_Families_and_Careers/hic_the_female_reproductive_system
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2011/06/15/what-are-chances-you-would-be-born/

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