Your Old Idaho Bed Pillows As Funky As A Toilet Seat, Study Finds

Most of us go to bed every night and snuggle up with our pillows and don't think much about it. The truth is, what's lying under that pillow case would horrify most humans if they tore off a portion of their beloved pillows and placed it under a microscope.

Every Idaho household has that one family member who's been rocking that same pillow since 1995. You can tell your pillow is nasty AF if when you go to pull it out of its case it looks like it's been in an abandoned flop house for 20 years. That yellow tinge and weird shape has nothing to do with it adapting to the contours of your head and shoulders, but instead, is due to years of bacteria buildup.

The study also proves that some people really need to do a better job of cleaning their toilets.

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My wife and I were changing out the bedding a few months back when she brought my pillow to my attention. She stood there and held what looked like padding that had been pulled from under a freeway overpass after decades of going unnoticed. It literally looked like it had been kept in a large jar of formaldehyde since the seventies; I immediately tossed it out and replaced it with a new one.

A study published six months ago by Amerisleep found that some of us are basically resting our heads on a toilet seat every night, or day depending on your work schedule. Pillowcases that are just a few weeks old may already have over 17,000 times the amount of toilet seat bacteria, according to the Amerisleep data. The study also proves that some people really need to do a better job of cleaning their toilets.