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Humans or Bacterial Colonies?

[http://www21.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=bacteria+in+the+human+body]

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June 05, 2009

I was playing around with Wolfram Alpha and noticed that there are an order of magnitude more bacteria (10¹⁵) in our bodies than there are human cells (10¹⁴)...