👻BOO! It's your poo. 👻⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Since launching¹ #GIVEASHIT, thousands of you are peering into your toilet bowls more than you ever have in your lives. But now, we're going to look even closer.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ 6000x closer—to answer the question: what exactly is poop? 🔍💩⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The composition of human feces is roughly 75% water and 25% solid waste, including cellular lining, plant fibers, fats, proteins, mucus, bile, and other things your body couldn’t digest. ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ But there's more, and the scanning electron micrograph above may offer a hint. See, every time you go to the bathroom, you actually shed trillions of microbes (bacteria, viruses, archaea—both living and dead). It's actually estimated that within each gram of 'wet stool', there are nearly 100 billion bacteria.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ You can't see them with the naked eye, of course, but you definitely can see one of their byproducts:⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Ever wonder why your poop is brown? The answer is bile (and bacteria). In your body, bile secretes something called bi...