Amazing But True Facts About the Human Body

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If you removed all the DNA helices in the average human body and stretched them out end-to-end they would extend from planet Earth past the planet Pluto.

Reason: Every cell in your body contains a double helix of your unique DNA, each one, when extended to its full length measures about 6.5 ft. There is about 36 trillion cells in the human body.

The DNA double helix is a real physical thing within your cells

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Is that how Hedgpeth thinks the flu vaccine mandate is Bidens fault.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (under President Trump) ended the flu vaccine mandate in April 2026, explicitly framing it as reversing “Biden-era” vaccine policies. However, the flu mandate itself was not created by Biden — it had existed for nearly 80 year

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It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for a Navy ship’s crew to come down with something like polio or measles. Nuclear sub’s assigned cruises last 3-6 months.

How many times have we seen cruise ships quarantined because of easily-spread diseases?

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. 1918–1919: The Spanish Flu devastated the fleet

The 1918 pandemic hit the Navy extremely hard:

  • Over 5,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel died
  • Ships, barracks, and transports saw explosive spread due to crowding
  • Some historians describe the early phase as “largely a naval affair”

Flu spread so fast on ships that entire crews were incapacitated.

Why ships are vulnerable

Across all eras, the same factors show up:

  • Crowded living quarters
  • Shared ventilation
  • Close-contact work environments
  • Rapid spread before symptoms appear

This is why the Navy adopted mandatory flu vaccination programs starting in the 1950s — though outbreaks still occasionally occur when new variants emerge.

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Difference between a flu shot and deployment vaccines