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April 24, 2015

Strange But True!

Q. First for some fun facts: 1. If the entire 4.6 billion-year history of Earth were compressed into a 24-hour day, the dinosaurs would have appeared at 22:46 and the first cities just a tenth of a second before midnight. 2. A human spermatozoa swimming toward its target is like a man in a swimming pool full of molasses, unable to move any part of his body faster than one centimeter per minute. 3. If the Pacific Ocean were drinking water, it would take you 960,000 trillion years to drink it.

Now, can you say what literary device the above all make use of?


 
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