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it's friday june 24th 2020 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, we've got a bit of an unintentionally

body horror-themed episode today. First, the facts on how risky public bathrooms actually are

when it comes to germs and disease transmission, plus the secret lives of skin

mites, a bevy of new findings on the microscopic creatures that live on our faces, and as a chaser,

some animal ASMR. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

Every year at my high school, the freshman biology classes would be assigned an experiment,

which began with them being unleashed all over campus, armed with cotton swabs and microscope slides,

in a competition to find the surface of the school with the most germs on it.

There would always be a beeline for the restrooms with everyone's initial thought being that

the grossest most germ concentrated surface must be the toilet seat.

Others who had listened when upperclassmen recounted their own experiences would go for

the bottom of their shoes,

the surface that perennially ended up being the actual winner of the germiest surface in the school.

These days, it might be someone's phone, but the point remains that it was not the toilet seat.

After all, that's one of the few surfaces that actually got regularly cleaned.

And I try to remind myself of that whenever I get grossed out in public restrooms.

But especially as we live through a pandemic, it's understandable that some of us have

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