Today's (not so) fun fact: Up to half the weight of an old pillow is dead mites or stool from mites
The mites ("midd" in Norwegian) in your bed feed off what remains of dead skin flakes when the molds ("muggsopp" in Norwegian) has eaten most of the fat from your skin waste.
On avarage there are a few thousand up to one million mites in a average bed.
Up to half the weight of an old pillow is dead mites or stool from mites.
Source: The Norwegian radio show "Abels tårn".
I need a proper scientific reference for that XD
I'd like myself, but unfortunately I'm just referencing what I heard, so I can't back the blog post up with proper research articles.
I should add that the statements were made by a board of university professors, so that bring more credibility to it.
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