THE petrol pump is one object you may not have realised is teeming with bacteria.
Britain's Mirror is reporting that filling up your car at a petrol station is more unhygienic than licking a toilet seat.
When the pump and button went under the microscope they were found to be crawling with gram-positive cocci and gram-positive rods that can cause skin infections and pneumonia.
The reason for the high level of bacteria is simple, the sheer number of hands using the pump each and every day.
Maybe it's time to pop out the antibacterial wash!
JApanese adults aren't having enough sex, according to the country's latest National Institute of Population and Social Security Research paper.
When looking at Japanese people aged between 18 and 34, the study found a 42% of men and 44% of women were still virgins.
Both these figures have increased nearly 10% since the survey first began asking sex-related questions back in 1987.
The Japanese government is concerned about the increasingly celibate society and is trying to raise the nation's fertility rate.
Incentives include offering better child-care services and tax rebates for married couples.
Time will only tell if such motives will encourage the nation to start getting it on.
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