If you’re reading this on a cell phone, we’ve got some bad news.
It turns out that mobile devices are totally filthy. Science has proven it: one study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine took samples from almost 400 phones and found that one in six of them were contaminated with (deep breath time) poop, while another found that every square inch of a cell phone contains around 25,000 germs.
Don’t freak out yet, because most of the germs found in these studies were totally harmless. However, it’s still a good idea to follow some basic hygiene steps to keep the nastier germs at bay.