We live in an amazing world...

... full of things that make you wonder. Seriously, if anyone thinks this world is boring, monotonous and drab, all you need to do is come talk to me and I'll show you some of the most amazing things this world has to offer, right here on the internet. Everything posted here is real. Follow the links to read the original articles if you wish to.

• First up, a scientist uses research as an excuse to read 12,942 comic books. Now thanks to his... um, hard work, we know that superheroes have a larger social network than villians which is why they always win.

  "Physicist Pablo Gleiser of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, studied the social web within the fictional universe of Marvel comics, comprising 6486 characters in 12,942 issues. Taking two characters to be linked if they appeared in the same issue, he found a superficially realistic social network."

• Then, another bunch of scientists decided that most waking activities were inversely related to sleep time. Okkkaaayyy... Captain Obvious. Like, spend more time awake, sleep less as a result? Genius! Who woulda thunk?

• And then we have this guy here who's going to go down in human history because... just watch the video. You'll see.

• Okay this last one is a little NSFW (Not Safe For Work, meaning there's stuff in there people under 18 should not see and people above 18 would do better not to see). Not only do the Japanese have sex with fishes, but they also play really, really weird video games. I'll let Kotaku do the explaining:

  Love Death 2 is first-person-shooter meets Japanese erotic game from developer TEATIME. And what are players shooting in this erotic game? Well...it ain't bullets!

  Here's what's going on: the girl character Koto Sumikawa says we can do whatever we want. She wants to talk. The player doesn't and unloads in her general direction, causing her to get annoyed. The player then goes and gets a bat (yes, a BAT) and scares the poor girl. The player then "shoots" a few "rounds" at her, causing her to scurry about the room and run through a chalkboard and disappear, causing the entire room to moan. The player fires off a few more rounds as a denouement. The end.

Think you've seen the world? No you haven't. I'm not sure if you'll want to either.