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Remixes, Bacteria, and Walk With Me

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Walk With Me, Walk Through - Your Favorite Recent Fact

In the early 70s, a biologist released a report stating that 90% of our bodies, like is non-human. That fact has been upgraded to 50%. Even the NIH have reported that the more accurate data point is that 50% of who we are is not us. I love the weird paradox in that. You know, that we are just these essentially like fleshy buses for bacteria,. Like shepherding bacteria and other things from the time we're born until the time we die. The only thing we don't like is when we bathe. Apparently bacteria really don't do too well with like antibacterial sprays but they really don't like bathing.

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