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Over a lifetime, a human produces roughly 5,249 kg of stool — about the weight of an adult African elephant. We calculate what fraction of your daily calories exits unused, why a vegan diet scores 74% digestive efficiency while a low-fiber diet hits 93%, and what Kleiber's Law tells us about why mice produce more waste per kilogram than elephants.
Buying all 8.1 million Korean Lotto combinations costs about ₩8.1 billion (~US$6.0M). Even winning the jackpot solo doesn't cover it in a typical draw. Buying half looks like a 50/50 coin flip — but the loss when you miss is 3× the gain when you hit. We work out exactly when it becomes theoretically profitable and how big a Powerball jackpot you'd need.
A solo Santa would need to fly thousands of times the speed of sound — but that's not even the real problem. Three scenarios, a Fermi estimation, and one genuinely surprising bottleneck.