We’ve been sitting on a thrown of flimsy lies…

We need to talk about those thin paper toilet seat covers. You know the ones—the crinkly, awkward sheets that feel like you’re laying down a tissue to protect yourself from the horrors of public restroom porcelain. Well, according to a new article by the BBC, those things might be…completely pointless.

According to one poll by the research group YouGov from 2023, around 63% of Americans sit down when they use a public toilet – but around half of those first line the seat with toilet roll.

Apparently, the idea that these whisper-thin sheets are guarding you from a bacterial apocalypse is more fiction than fact. The paper is so thin it might as well be a suggestion rather than a shield.

As the BBC reports, toilet seats are not the germ-riddl

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