10 Fascinating facts about our DNA

1. Your DNA sequence contains 3,000,000,000 DNA bases. This is what we call our Genome.
2. If you unravelled your DNA it could reach to the moon over six thousand times! 
3. All humans share 99.9% of their DNA in common.
4. Chimps share between 94% and 98% of their DNA with humans.
5. Siblings share around 50% of their genes as do a parent and their child.
6. If you can type 60 words a minute, it would take you 50 years to type the human genome if you worked eight hours every day.
7. Our gnome would completely fill 2000 telephone directories books.
8. We still have up to 4% Neanderthal in our DNA.
9. Every human organism has DNA.
10. It was first seen by Friedrich Miescher under a microscope in 1869.