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Hari Sanil, works at Delta Air Lines Updated Jul 19, 2017
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• The brain named itself.
• Your age is the number of times you orbited the sun.
• Your internal organs will never see the light.
• Every game of chess starts and ends with a checkmate, because the king can't move any spaces.
• The order of a pack of shuffled cards has probably never been seen before in the history of the universe.
• The same water that the dinosaurs used is the one you are showering in right now.
• If you are a married man, your female spouse would most likely outlive you.
• You've never seen your face before, only in reflections and the mirror.
• You will never ever know what it is like to be a man if you're a woman or vice versa.
• Somewhere in the world, every single celebrity or famous person is somewhere doing something right now.
• "Do Not Touch" is a useless phrase in Braille.
• Earth is the only planet that doesn't have an ancient name.

BONUS: This water is really warm, I'm staying in for a few more minutes.

Enjoy!

​ ▌VOCABULARY:

• orbit: v. move in orbit round (sth) 在绕（某 物）的轨道上运行; 环绕轨道运行: orbit in space 在太空中沿轨道运行；n. path followed by a planet, star, moon, etc round another body （天体运行的）轨道: the earth's orbit round the sun 地球绕行太阳的轨道；
• checkmate: (in chess) situation in which one player cannot prevent the capture of his king and the other player is therefore the winner （国际象棋中）将死；total defeat 彻底失败；
• shuffle: slide (playing-cards) over one another to change their order 洗（纸牌）: Who is going to shuffle? 谁洗牌？
• outlive: live longer than (sb) 比（某人）活得久；
• vice versa: the other way round; with the terms or conditions reversed 反之亦然; 反过来情况也一样；
• Braille: system of reading and writing for blind people, using raised dots to represent letters which can be read by touching them 盲文（供盲人阅读和书写用的凸点符号）

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