21 Intriguing Things You Don't Know About Bacteria

1 - All bacteria in your body now weigh almost 2 pounds, you know?

2 - An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a bathroom;

3 - There are more bacteria in your mouth than people on the planet;

4 - The smell of rain is caused by a bacterium called Actinobacteria;

5 - Cell phones have 18 times more bacteria than bathroom handles;

6 - Research has already managed to catalog 1, 458 new bacteria by analyzing only the navel region;

7 - A clean mouth has between 1, 000 and 100, 000 bacteria in each tooth;

8 - Chocolate has an antibacterial effect and helps to prevent tooth wear;

9 - There is a specific type of bacteria that lives only in hairspray;

10 - A money bill can have up to 3, 000 types of bacteria;

11 - During the kiss, two people exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria;

12 - Most antibiotics are made of bacteria;

13 - After two weeks of use, a pair of jeans has created a thousand colonies of bacteria on the front, between 1, 500 and 2, 500 on the back and 10, 000 on the inside;

14 - The strongest creature in the world is the gonorrhea bacterium;

15 - Offices with more male employees have many more bacteria;

16 - In New Zealand, in 2013, a bacterium was found capable of resisting all existing antibiotics;

Every 20 minutes a new bacterium grows in a sink sponge;

18 - 20% of office mugs contain fecal material;

19 - Babies are born without bacteria in their bodies;

20 - Eating beans causes us to have flatulence because this type of grain is composed of a sugar called "oligosaccharide", which the gut bacteria have difficulty digesting and this process ends up producing gas;

21 - Bacteria can also be infected with viruses.

* Posted on 10/10/2017