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Ask Joe #20 - 5 Common Items That Are Dirtier than a Toilet Seat

Joe Scott 4:22

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When asked a question about toilet seats, Joe lays out the scary truth - that many common, everyday items we use all the time are far dirtier than toilet seats. Here's 5 of them.

Quick facts:

Most doorknobs contain trace amounts of E. Coli.

Cell phones carry traces of fecal matter.

Most infections from hospitals come from the remote controls in the patients' rooms.

Money is never cleaned.

Kim Kardashian is gross.

Image Credits:

Ellen Solberg - Bathroom distress
http://www.behance.net/ellensolberg/frame/4553055

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giardia_lamblia_SEM_8698_lores.jpg

http://bayer-veterina.hr/scripts/pages/hr/drustvene_zivotinje/psi/bolesti/giardia.php

E Coli wallpaper:
http://zethara.deviantart.com/art/E-coli-Wallpaper-28818707

Rhinovirus:
http://www.erkbiz.com/commoncold/

Kardashian:
http://thejasminebrand.com/index.php/2012/09/10/kanye-reportedly-watched-kim-kardashians-sex-tape-with-other-women/#.UHic2xhqOic

Staph:
http://yvannafatima.wordpress.com/tag/staphylococcus-aureus/

Fecal Matter:
http://www.spreadshirt.com/pile-of-shit-1c-polo-shirts-C3376A9884840

Keyboard:
http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/emoticons/Interesting

Dollar bill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_one_dollar_bill,_obverse.jpg

Handing over money:

http://tucson.sie.arizona.edu/MURI/abstracts.html

http://www.ronmartin.net/blog/archives/1539

http://thebsreport.wordpress.com/2010/05/page/31/

http://www.businessinsider.com/three-tips-to-design-a-highly-motivating-sales-compensation-plan-2010-12

Dirty Hands:

http://www.lindseynobles.com/2009/12/drafting-blueprints-part-3/

http://www.usmansheikh.com/success-factors/getting-your-hands-dirty

http://www.duvekot.ca/eliane/archives/001197.html

Dollar vending machine

http://www.youngmanbrown.com/2012/03/youngman-brown-vs-vending-machine.html

Money counter:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/306092645/Bill_counter_machine.html

Crotch
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/michael-jackson/images/12121484/title/crotch-grabbing-collection-woohoo-photo

Staph
http://theidchallenge.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/staph-infection/

Scarface
http://weilim-gameover.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

Doorknob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_doorknob_crop.jpg

Remote
http://flowtv.org/2008/03/pass-the-remote/

Keyboard
http://blog.dearbornschools.org/keyboardingschock/2010/11/

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