At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom. Literally everything is covered in dick stuff. Source: 30+ years of using public restrooms as a male.

  • eightpix
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    1910 hours ago

    Heres two:

    The ratio between cells of your body that belong to you vs. cells on or in your body that are microorganisms is about 1:1 — slightly favouring the bacteria.

    If the Sun were destroyed, we would not know about it until more than 8 minutes after it happened.

    • @[email protected]
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      2610 hours ago

      I claim ownership of the microorganisms in and on my body. I am not merely human; I am a glorious amalgamation of trillions of distinct beings, working in harmony to bring you shitposts!

    • HubertManne
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      47 hours ago

      I actually thought we had way more microorganisms vs are cells because they are so small.

      • eightpix
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        25 hours ago

        In 2016, the number of bacteria was reviewed, and the estimate reduced from 300 trillion to about 38 trillion microorganisms.

        • HubertManne
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          24 hours ago

          thanks. I hate this kind of thing because im sitting there like. why did I think that. hopefully this whole thing will burn the more up to date info into my brain.

    • palordrolap
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      69 hours ago

      This is one of the larger plot holes in the 1980s remake of The Fly, in my opinion.

      • eightpix
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        25 hours ago

        Cronenberg is a countryman. I’ll hand him a pass on that one.