Here's a reality check for you, we spend on average about three years of our life in our cars.

So if you’re feeling a bit carsick, there may be a perfectly good reason for it. Your car is filled with bacteria — all over the steering wheel, the dashboard and gear shift.

In a survey of car owners, microbiologists found that the typical car has 283 different types of bacteria in every square centimeter. The gear shift has has the most with 356 germs per square centimeter.

Ewwww!  So Here's how we getter' DONE!

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