BoPL

Did you know that under ideal conditions a single cell of the phytoplanktonic cyanobacterium Gomphosphaeria Kützing 1836 could reproduce to cover the entire world armpit deep in its progeny in only 4.5 days? That’s our armpits, by the way, not Gomphosphaeria’s; even if it had armpits, which it doesn’t, they’d be so close to the ground that you could probably smear me thinly enough to bury the Earth to that height. But I’d rather you didn’t.