Carbon fiber is a wonderful material. That first sentence might not have been what you were expecting when you clicked on this, but I'll bring it full circle. Just you wait. So the main use for carbon fiber is to make a car very lightweight. It's the same material that F1 cars are made out of, but did you know that it has a use in F1 that isn't related to cars at all?

Those champagne bottles that the drivers love to shake are actually coated in carbon fiber. The bottles aren't made out of carbon fiber, but an exterior carbon fiber coat is put around the outside for some unknown reason. It doesn't make the bottle any lighter and as far as practical use goes, there is no practical use.

The price of a 1.5-liter bottle of this stuff sells online for $3,000. Basically every time you see a podium event, you're also watching between $3,000-$9,000 being poured directly on the ground. If you want to buy a 6-liter bottle, it will cost you $8,000, and a 15-liter bottle is $50,000. I don't understand those increments at all. So you're telling me that I can buy three 6-liter bottles, which totals up to 18-liters, for $24,000, but a 15-liter bottle is $50,000?

None of this stuff makes sense to me.