• falseWhite@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Human face pores are home to tiny, microscopic mites called Demodex.

    They are most active at night, when they leave their follicles to mate on the face and then return to find a new follicle.

    Almost everyone has them. So there are tiny arachnids having sex on your face every night.

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        19 hours ago

        It’s not an illness. In most cases they are completely harmless and unavoidable, you get them from your mom as a baby and carry them your whole life. Most people have them. A minority of people can have some skin condition due to them, but it’s quite rare. And yes dogs carry them too, but not an issue for them either.

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        2 hours ago

        They don’t poop from what I recall.

        But they don’t go anywhere when they die so you are covered with poop balloon corpses.

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        50 minutes ago

        “In” feels like the wrong preposition here, since the creatures involved are all on the same side of you. Next to? It’s more like you’re a room or two away from an orgy and the sound doesn’t really carry.

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      22 hours ago

      I thought everyone had them. If you didn’t, wouldn’t your hair follicles get clogged and gross?