Pus is a battlefield full of fallen soldiers

Anecdota
Pus is a battlefield full of fallen soldiers
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Pus is a battlefield full of fallen soldiers

Neutrophils are the first white blood cells to rush to an infection. They engulf bacteria, then die quickly: their life in the bloodstream lasts from a few hours to a few days. Pus is mostly their remains, mixed with destroyed microbes and tissue debris. Visible evidence of the fight.

Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Your kidneys filter about 180 liters every day

Every day, your kidneys filter around 180 liters of blood plasma, about a bathtub's worth. Yet you only have about 3 liters of plasma, so it passes through your kidneys some sixty times a day. Over 99% of the filtered water is reabsorbed, leaving just one to two liters of urine.

NIDDK (NIH)
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Your body has more atoms than the observable universe has stars

A 70 kg adult is made of about 7 × 10²⁷ atoms, or seven billion billion billion. The observable universe is thought to hold on the order of 10²² to 10²⁴ stars. Even with the high estimate, you contain thousands of times more atoms than there are stars in the entire visible cosmos.

European Space Agency (ESA)