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TIL that hundreds or thousands of mites - microscopic tiny eight-legged animals - are living in the pores. They are related to spiders or ticks, spend most of their lives in our pores, and while we sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.

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