The total surface area of mitochondria in your cells is equivalent to about 14,000 meters^2 or 4 football fields…🤯

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the craziest thing I ever learned about mitochondria is that they were simply bacteria once 🫢

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Totally a wild fact, agreed! They even have their own genome separate from ours for the exact same reason that Wall Street traders want their servers as close to the trading floor as possible

When I learned this, I was like holy shit, this alien-like thing has just been living in some symbiotic relationship within our species for millions of years

Super crazy shit! Carl Sagan’s first wife  was the one who first proposed it. Her book Symbiotic Planet was what got me interested in the microbial world