All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds.
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The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
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There're more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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The "smell of rain" is caused by a bacteria called actinomycetes.
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Mobile phones have 18 times more bacteria than toilet handles.
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Researchers found 1,458 new species of bacteria in belly buttons.
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Sweat itself is odorless. It's the bacteria on the skin that mingles with it and produces body odor.
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A clean mouth has between
1,000 and 100,000 bacteria on each tooth.
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Chocolate has an anti-bacterial effect on the mouth and protects against tooth decay.
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Tap water has a shelf-life of 6 months, after which chlorine dissipates and bacteria starts to grow.
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There's a breed of bacteria that lives in hairspray.
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A dollar bill has
3,000 types of bacteria.
3,000 types of bacteria.
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When two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million and 1 billion bacteria.
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Most antibiotics are made from bacteria.
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After two weeks of wear, a pair of jeans will have grown a 1,000-strong colony of bacteria on the front, 1,500–2,500 on the back, and 10,000 on the crotch.
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The strongest creatures on Earth are gonorrhea bacteria. They can pull 100,000 times their own body weight.
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Offices with more male employees have far more bacteria.
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In 2013, a bacteria was found in New Zealand that's resistant to every single antibiotic known.
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Computer Keyboards can carry more than 200 times as many bacteria as a toilet seat.
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New bacteria grows on a kitchen sponge every 20 minutes.
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20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal bacteria.
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Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
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Some 15,152 types of life forms, from insects to bacteria, have been identified on the New York subway.
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A newly-discovered species of rust-eating bacteria will have consumed the wreck of the Titanic within 20 years.
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Beans increase flatulence because they carry a type of sugar called "oligosaccharides", which are hard for bacteria to break down, so they release gas in the process.
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Airplane tray tables hold more bacteria than most typical household items, a study found.
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Horseshoe crab blood is worth US$15,000/L, due to its ability to detect bacteria.
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The chlorine in swimming pools isn't what causes red eyes. It is the chlorine binding to the bacteria in the water.
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There are viruses that infect bacteria.
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It's estimated that a third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis bacteria, but most never have any symptoms.
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Bacteria have the smallest eyeballs in nature but the largest relative to their size.
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A report found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.
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Bacteria and amoebas are far more different from each other than amoebas are from people.
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You can get tetanus a not just from a rusty nail but also from a perfectly clean one. It is caused by bacteria commonly found in soil, dust and animal feces.
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People infected with bacteria "C. difficile" need healthy poop transplants in their gut in order to survive. Poop samples are sold at $40 each.
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