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If you are a regular traveller on the London Underground, here are some facts which you are going to wish you hadn't read.
During Autumn of 2000, a team of scientists at the Department of Forensics at University College London removed a row of passenger seats from a Central
Line tube carriage for analysis into cleanliness. Despite London Underground's claim that the interior of their trains are cleaned on a regular basis, the scientists made some alarming discoveries. The analysis was broken down. This is what was found on the surface of the seats:
> > 4 types of hair sample (human, mouse, rat, dog)
> > 7 types of insect (mostly fleas, mostly alive)
> > vomit originating from at least 9 separate people
> > human urine originating from at least 4 separate people
> > human excrement
> > rodent excrement
> > human semen
> >When the seats were taken apart, they found:
> > the remains of 6 mice
> > the remains of 2 large rats
> > 1 previously unheard of fungus
> >It is estimated that by holding one of the armrests, you are transferring, to your body, the natural oils and sweat from as many as 400 different
people.
> >It is estimated that it is generally healthier to smoke five cigarettes a day than to travel for one hour a day on the London Underground.
> >It is far more hygienic to wipe your hand on the inside of a recently flushed toilet bowl before eating, than to wipe your hand on a London Underground seat before eating.
> >It is estimated that, within London, more work sick-days are taken because of bugs picked up whilst travelling on the London Underground than for any
other reason (including alcohol).