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**Title:** Exploring the Concept of "Normal"
**Key Points:**
1. **Redefined "Normal"**: Being "normal" might just mean being average, but averages can be misleading (e.g., the average person has one breast and one testicle).
2. **Unconquered Spaces**: Despite feeling like the world is fully explored, there are over 100 recognized, extremely tall mountain peaks that remain unsummitted.
3. **The Three Prisoners Problem**: A counterintuitive puzzle where learning one prisoner's fate doesn't change the odds of survival for the speaker, but paradoxically improves the odds for another prisoner.
4. **Scientific Surprises**:
* Humid air is less dense than dry air (Avogadro's Law), affecting baseball trajectories.
5. **Linguistic Curiosities**:
* "Normal" is a self-descriptive (homological) word.
* Examples of non-self-descriptive (heterological) words: "misspelled", "abbreviated", and "monosyllabic".
6. **Statistical Normalcy**: The probability of being "normal" across 36 independent variables is approximately 1 in 1 million, making it mathematically abnormal to be normal.
Here are the extracted key facts, each with a number and presented in short sentences, excluding opinions:
**Geography and Mountaineering**
1. Gangkhar Puensum is considered the tallest mountain on Earth that has yet to be summited.
2. Gangkhar Puensum lies on the border of China and Bhutan.
3. Local governments consider the area around Gangkhar Puensum holy, and no mountaineering or climbing is allowed.
4. There are at least a hundred other recognized peaks that are quite tall and remain unsummitted.
**Physics and Science**
5. The Earth is spinning, causing a person's location to change by about 1 kilometer every 2 seconds.
6. The Earth orbits the Sun quickly, with a person's location changing by over 7 million kilometers in just 3 days.
7. According to Avogadro's Law, a given volume of gas at a given temperature and pressure always has the same number of gas particles, regardless of the gas type.
8. Humid air is less dense than dry air due to water molecules (mass 18) replacing heavier nitrogen (mass 28) and oxygen (mass 32) molecules.
9. A 5% decrease in air density due to humidity can result in a baseball traveling farther with the same energy.
**Linguistics**
10. The word "normal" is homoliteral, meaning it describes itself.
11. Homoliteral adjectives describe their own characteristics (e.g., "tiny" is a small word).
12. Heterological adjectives do not describe themselves (e.g., "misspelled" is not misspelled if written correctly).
**Statistics and Probability**
13. The statistical probability of being "normal" (within one standard deviation of the average) across 36 independent variables is approximately 1 in 1,000,000.
14. Mathematically, it is quite abnormal to be "normal" across many attributes.