How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
18-year-old student suspended from school for asking reigning Miss America Nina Davuluri to go out with him.
A daring 18-year-old student was suspended from school for for asking reigning Miss America Nina Davuluri to go out with him. Teachers at Central York High School had warned students to be on their best behaviour during the 25-year-old beauty champ's visit. Armed with a plastic flower, Patrick Farves clambered on the stage as Ms Davuluri's spoke at an assembly and asked her if she would be his date for the school's forthcoming prom. Amid whoops and cheers from his classmates, the beauty queen politely declined his offer. But teachers didn't see the funny side to Patrick's antics. He has now been suspended for three days.
Speaking to his local TV station WPMT-TV, the student insisted Miss America had seen the funny side of the stunt. He said: "She just kind of laughed and I gave her the little flower I got. "And I went up and gave her the flower and asked her if I could get a selfie with her. And she was like 'maybe later' and I never got the selfie." But senior teachers at the school insist they had got wind of Patrick's plan in advance and he had been warned off from carrying out the prank.
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