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Deinococcus radiodurans

A species of bacteria capable of surviving 1.5 million rads of gamma radiation (3000 times the lethal radiation dose for humans), surviving long periods of dehydration, and surviving high doses of ultraviolet radiation. Deinococcus radiodurans was discovered in 1956 in some canned meat.

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