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There's a lot that's great about being a dad. The joy and pride you feel when your daughter learns a new skill; the heart-swelling awesomeness of hearing her first "I love you, Daddy." You take your lumps as a parent, to be sure, but almost every day there's something that reminds you how freakin' cool this gig really is. But a lot of it is, really, kind of predictable. That doesn't take away from it's power, mind you, but it's sort of ... cliche.
Which makes the items on the following list even more remarkable. Not only are the following things amazingly cool, they are — for the most part — unexpected joys of parenting. The stuff they don't tell you in prenatal class.