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