Unexpected things that are dirtier than your toilet
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Playgrounds - Researchers reportedly sampled both indoor and outdoor playgrounds, finding traces of blood, mucus, and urine—all the makings of a parent's nightmare.
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Keyboards - People often eat at their desk while they work, and keyboards have been found with up to five times the amount of germs than a toilet seat!
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Swimming pools - In 2013, CDC researchers collected water samples from filters at 160 public pools in the US, and found feces and E. coli in nearly 60% of them!
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Movie theaters - Those theater seats have had many butts in them, many spilled drinks, and even bacteria commonly found in feces.
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Shopping carts - The handles particularly are found to have traces of fecal matter and E. coli.
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Carpet - Dead skin cells, food particles, pet dander, pollen, and all those accidents make carpet about 4,000 times dirtier than toilet seats.
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TV remotes - Touching it between snacks, letting it fall between the couch cushions, and passing it from hand to hand is a recipe for bacteria.
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Bathtub - Even the place where you're supposed to leave feeling cleaner is a bacterial nightmare, particularly the area around the drain.
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Door knobs - Hands are one of the dirtiest parts of the body, so when you designate a place for many different hands to touch, you can expect a certain result.
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Gas pumps - All kinds of hands with all kinds of bacteria are holding those handles day in and day out. What did you expect?
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Don't freak out! - Clearly, humans are able to encounter all of this bacteria every day, many times a day, and still very few of us get sick or die from it.