5 Mind-blowing Facts About Your Sperm: The 5th One Is A Miracle

Written by Asexual Doctor (on X)

“With each ejaculation, a healthy man produces more sperms than the population of France, UK, and Italy put together.”

Here are 5 MIND-BLOWING facts about your sperm. The 5th one is a miracle.

1. A snail travels faster than a sperm.

A garden snail moves at about 1 meter per hour, and at their maximum speed, they can cover 25 meters in 24 hours.

Your average sperm swims at about 8 inches per hour.

To increase their chances of doing their work, human sperms are adapted to remain alive inside a reproductive tract for about 4 or 5 days.

2. The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperms of an elephant and a human put together. 😂

The sperm of a mouse is 124 micrometers long.

On the other hand, the human sperm is about 50 micrometers long, and that of an elephant is 56 micrometers long. This is because of an adaptation.

To compensate for size, larger animals produce much more sperms than smaller animals.

3. Humans are nearly 15 times taller than fruit flies. But fruit flies have sperms that are 1000 times taller than humans.

The length of an average fire fly sperm is 2.5 inches. If you divide that by 50 micrometers, it goes in about 1,270 times. The firefly sperm is actually several times longer than the fruit fly itself.

For this reason, it is delivered coiled up like a ball of thread into during the reproduction process.

4. With each ejaculation, a healthy man produces more sperms than the population of France, UK, and Italy put together, Yes!

France has an estimated 66 million people. UK and Italy have 65 million and 60 million, respectively. A total of 191 million, give or take. A healthy man can produce between 20 million and 100 million sperms per millimeter of semen. That’s 60 million average.

But they also produce about 1.5 to 5 millimeters of goodies. Or 3.25ml average. If we do the maths, that’s 195 million. But the good news is that Darwin’s survival of the fittest happens, so only the fittest survive.

5. The odds of you being born as you are 1 in 400 Trillion.

You’ve had it said that you’re one in a million. But… 😂

You’re much, much more than that.

If you came from a human sperm sown through the traditional channels, the chances that you would turn out in this world as you are today are 1 in 4 Quadrillion. That’s 1 in 400,000,000,000,000.

And, the more complex the circumstances surrounding your birth, the more miraculous it is that you made it this far.

–Deeprows Health