- You poop, I poop, everybody poops and pees.
And that's why we need public bathrooms.
And that's what we're talking
about on this week's Wednesday Checkup.
Be woop!
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I came across an article this week talking about
how air dryers in bathrooms are actually a bad invention.
But in doing research on the subject, I came across
some crazy facts about toilets and public restrooms
that I wanted to share with you.
So stick around for the rapid-fire section as I
shoot facts at you about toilets and bathrooms.
There are two industries that are obsessed with
cleanliness and transmission of viruses and bacteria.
Food and healthcare.
I'm part of that industry
and I know how important it is to reduce the spread
of bacteria and viruses, especially in a hospital setting.
So when a study came out discussing the best hand drying
methods within a public bathroom, it peaked my curiosity.
Within this study, they compared three different methods.
Jet air drying, hot air drying and paper towels.
Here's what they found.
Using jet air dryers dispersed
190 times more virus than using a paper towel,
and 20 times more virus than a heated air dryer.
This is because jet air dryers use so much force and so much
air to blow the water off of your hands that they're also
blowing around all the bacteria and viruses as well.
In an area like a hospital, that's problematic.
Don't people normally wash their hands and then dry them
so they're essentially drying clean hands?
Nope.
In fact, the people that are washing their hands
are doing so incorrectly a huge majority of the time.
I wanna share with you right here right now how to wash
your hands the proper way, the way doctors do it,
the way they do it on Grey's Anatomy.
Well, they don't do it well on Grey's Anatomy,
but here's the right to do it from the CDC themselves.
Get your hands wet underneath the faucet.
Yeah yeah yeah, it's wet.
Get some soap, lather the backs of your hands,
the fronts of your hands,
underneath your fingernails, do that for 20 seconds,
that's about the time that it takes to sing Happy Birthday.
Then rinse, and if you're gonna dry your hands,
use a paper towel.
Not only will it dry your hands quicker, but it's also
gonna dislodge some of that bacteria because of friction.
Time for the lightning round of toilet/poop/bathroom
information that you definitely didn't know about.
Fact number one.
According to the U.N., there are 2.5 billion people
who don't have access to a toilet.
Yes, more people have access to a cell phone
than they do a toilet.
Considering that proper sanitation
and hygiene is crucial to good health, that's crazy.
Each flush uses approximately 1.6 gallons of water,
so think about that the next you sh.
However, we used to use about 3 and a half gallons,
so we're improving.
There's actually an international museum
of toilets found in India, and guess what,
it has 4.2 stars on 3000 reviews on Google.
Check it out.
The U.N. named November 19th National Toilet Day
to raise awareness about public health and sanitation.
It's only a week past my birthday.
Celebration.
There's a fierce debate about toilet paper
known as over under.
Are you the few 25% that hang behind,
or are you with the majority that hang in front?
The United States even spent money commissioning
research on this matter.
Don't ask me why.
The first stall in a line of toilets
is usually the cleanest one.
Nobody wants to the first one out there.
If you've ever peed at a urinal, and saw a little
bullseye or a little insect sitting there, that's designed
to make you pee right at that spot, to decrease over-spray
by up to 80%.
On average, women use seven toilet paper squares
per visit while men only use two.
Waste?
Nearly twice as many people fold toilet paper
as they do crumble it.
According to one study, women are more likely to
be influenced by a sign reminding them to wash their hands
rather than men.
According to many studies, toilet seats are not that dirty.
Think 500 to 1,000 colonies of bacteria
in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of colonies
that are found on your skin or the billion
or hundred-billion colonies found in a little gram of poop.
For men, on average it takes longer to get a urine stream
going if there's someone closer to them.
This was checked by a study.
Anxiety?
In a study done in the U.K., only about 2% of women sit
directly on the toilet when using a public restroom.
A story published in 2017 claiming there's poop matter in
men's beards was totally unfounded.
It was based on flawed science and no,
men don't have poop on their beards.
Generally speaking.
Your phone, yes your phone, has more poop bacteria on it
than an average toilet seat.
Toilet paper was invented in sixth century China.
The Chinese also invented paper.
Kinda makes sense.
Colored toilet paper was popular in the United States
up until the 1940s.
Bring back the fun?
While in most places it's common courtesy to flush
the toilet, in Singapore, if you don't flush one,
you're breaking the law.
Money?
All right, totally lost my mind
there for a little bit on this fact finding mission of mine.
The takeaway from this video is if you have a choice in
drying your hands with a paper towel or a jet air dryer,
always go for the paper towel.
Bear, stop drinking the toilet.
Silence, and action.
Quiet on set, rolling, action.
Everybody poops, and pees.
(Mike laughs)
It sounded like an earthquake for a second.
I legit thought it was an earthquake.
So stick around for the rapid-fire round, where I'm gonna
shoot magical facts, amazing facts, phenomenal facts about
toilets, at you.
The other day, me and my videographer, Dan Owens,
went to pee in a bathroom.
I saw him use the air dryer and I told him
you shouldn't be using it 'cause it shoots poop particles
all over the place.
He looked at me with a weird face.
- [Dan] Me and my videographer went to go pee.
- Me and my videographer went to use the restroom
at the same time coincidentally,
and after using the restrooms separately (laughs).
If you missed last Sunday's video on Game of Thrones,
shame on you, check it out here.
Click on it now.
The new gods and the old request it.
Stay happy and healthy.
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