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Shit hits more than the fan-Fecal matter found on more than 60% of toothbrushes in shared bathrooms
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/294945.php<snip>
Sharing a bathroom with other people can have its downfalls - wet towels all over the floor, toilet seats left up, and that person who never replaces the toilet paper. But a new study finds there is one communal bathroom issue that is much more pressing: fecal contamination on toothbrushes.
More than 60% of toothbrushes collected from shared bathrooms contained fecal matter, the researchers found.
Recently presented at the American Society for Microbiology annual meeting in New Orleans, LA, the study found that more than 60% of toothbrushes collected from students' shared bathrooms tested positive for fecal matter.
What is more, the researchers found there was an 80% chance that the fecal contamination identified on the toothbrushes came from other people using the bathroom - a worrying finding.
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So how many DUers watched the Mythbusters' Episode on this topic??
Toothbrush Fecal Matter
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As seen in "MythBusters: Breakstep Bridge"
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Finding: CONFIRMED
Explanation: Every time you flush a toilet, it releases an aerosol spray of tiny tainted water droplets. So if, like many people, you leave your toothbrush in the vicinity of a toilet, does that mean it's regularly bathed in bits of fecal matter? MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage uncovered the dirty truth to this myth by covering a bathroom with 24 toothbrushes, two of which they brushed with each morning — the others they simply rinsed every day for a month.
As experimental controls, the MythBusters kept two untainted toothbrushes in an office far away from the lavatory. At the end of the month-long trial, they sent their toothbrush collection to a microbiologist for bacterial testing.
Astonishingly, all the toothbrushes were speckled with microscopic fecal matter, including the ones that had never seen the inside of a bathroom. The confirmed myth unfortunately proved that there's indeed fecal matter on toothbrushes — and also everywhere else.
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Oh Shit! Ewwwwwwwww!
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We weren't meant to live in a sterile environment. Most of us have immune systems designed to deal with little contaminations, and in fact a little ordinary, non-disease riddled bacteria is good for us.
Keep things nice and clean, don't be gross in your habits and let it goooooooooo. The cortisol you're bathing your brain in worrying about every little thing is worse for you. 
Just thought I was protecting against mouth germs, but maybe more! My husband and I have different bathrooms, but still 
There are traces of tooth paste in poopy doody ca-ca 
