Quantum entanglement is like that one friend who always shows up to the party uninvited. You're having a nice quiet evening, and then suddenly there's a stranger in a doorway with a mischievous grin, connected to you in ways you can't quite understand.
Apparently, it lets you know when your socks are on opposite sides of the laundry basket. But seriously, it's a fundamental part of quantum mechanics, enabling quantum computing, and even quantum teleportation (just don't ask how that works).
On the other hand, it also means you can't have your cake and eat it, because if you do, the act of observation will change the state of the cake, making it a mere illusion. It's like the ultimate existential crisis: "Is the cake real or is it not?"
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