Curiosities of microbes,We know less than 1% of the species of microorganisms.
They have been on earth for almost 4,000 million years. On earth, there are more than 6 trillion microorganisms. There are more bacteria in our mouth than people in the world. There are more bacteria in our body than a cell. There are about 500 species of the pathogen for human. Bacteria are responsible for the typical rain smell.
In a tablespoon of soil, there are more than 400 million bacteria. If we lined up the bacteria on earth, they would form a line of 10 million light-years. There are more microorganisms in our body than there are stars in a milky way. In our body, there is more bacterial than human DNA. The morning breath is due to the chemical compound that bacteria from the mouth produce.No one has the same microbiome as us.
There is a bacterium that can live in the waters of the dead sea, there is a bacterium capable of growing in space. There is a bacterium capable of growing at more than 100°c. There are bacteria that could survive on Mars. Bateria "talk" to each other, there are bioluminescent bacteria.