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Fun Facts: The human body is 56% bacteria

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  • Did you know that the human body has more bacterial cells than human ones, and that identical twins have different fingerprints? Learn more with our fun facts of the day!

  • The human body is 56% bacteria. However, because the bacterial cells are extremely light, we are still 99.7 percent human by weight

    In 2016, researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science revealed that previous estimates suggesting the human body was 90 percent bacteria were wrong. Instead, the average adult has about 40 trillion bacterial cells and 30 trillion human ones.

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  • While identical twins are essentially clones of each other, they actually have different fingerprints

    Environmental factors during development, such as positioning in the womb and rate of growth, cause slight differentiation of each fingerprint. 

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  • Martin Luther King Jr., who called for the end of segregation in the U.S. with his

    Despite the grade, MLK Jr. graduated valedictorian of his class in 1951 and became one of the most highly respected speakers in U.S. history.

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  • In the mid 1800s, most citizens worked as farmers. Early November was considered a good time to vote because it was after the busy harvest season while the weather was still relatively mild.

    Election days were set on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November for several reasons. Sundays were meant for worship, and Wednesdays were often market days. To accommodate for long travel, Tuesdays became the best day of the week to vote. Election days also couldn’t be the first Tuesday of the month in order to prevent voting on Nov. 1, a day some Christians observed as All Saints’ Day.

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  • Vermont is the only U.S. state that doesn’t have a capital with a McDonald’s

    Montpelier, Vermont, has the smallest population of any state capital at 8,000 residents. While it is the only state capital without a McDonald’s, there is one right outside its city limits.

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  • CHILDREN'S FEET OFTEN SMELL BECAUSE THEY SWEAT TWICE AS MUCH AS ADULT FEET

    While adult feet can produce a cup of sweat each day, kid’s feet can sweat twice as much.

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  • There’s enough gold inside the Earth to cover the entire planet in a knee-high layer. It’s just over a thousand miles below the surface.

    According to the WorldAtlas, the precious metal is located 1,800 miles below the surface of the Earth and at many thousands of degrees.

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  • The human body has 206 bones. A quarter of those bones, exactly 52, are located in your feet!

    Each foot also has over 100 muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

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  • All insects, such as ants, breathe through tiny holes found all over their bodies

    This is why insects can never get very big. Their respiratory system wouldn’t allow oxygen to travel to the inner parts of a larger animal fast enough.

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  • A large majority of all orange cats are male! This is because the cat’s color gene is linked to sex. Female cats need two X chromosomes with the orange code while males only need one.

    Receiving two X chromosomes with the orange gene is not common, especially when other colors, such as black, are much more prevalent among cats.

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  • As the largest animals to have ever existed, blue whales can weigh as much as 200 tons. Their tongues alone can weigh as much as an elephant!

    The whale’s massive tongue helps the animal to eat massive amounts of krill, about 40 million krill a day. 

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  • Alpine bumblebees are able to fly up to 29,527 feet, higher than the tallest mountain in the world

    Bumblebees, which have a large body size and relatively small wings, were previously expected to struggle flying at high altitudes. However, alpine bumblebees surprisingly proved that they can hover at extreme barometric pressures, according to two researchers from the University of California and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

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  • Platypuses don’t have nipples. They feed their young by sweating milk! The nursing babies then drink it off the mother’s fur.

    According to the American Museum of Natural History,

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