No Such Thing As A Face Mite With A Laptop

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  Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

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  My name is Dan Schreiber, I'm sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Tyshinski, and James Harkin.

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  Now, once again, we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,

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  and in no particular order, here we go.

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  Starting with fact number one, that is Anna.

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  My fact this week is that it's a common misconception that face mites don't have an anus.

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  How common?

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  Oh, well, I know that I've flown it wide open for all of you guys and everyone listening out.

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  Honestly, if I had a quid for every time I'd heard someone on the bus saying,

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  you know that face mites don't have an anus, it's exhausting.

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  So we did think they were anus-less for a long time?

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  We did think they were.

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  And also, sorry, face mites, what are they?

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  Oh, right, sorry, yeah.

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  You could explain.

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  I suppose I'd better start from the beginning of this story.

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  So face mites are something that almost everyone with face mites does, if you've got a face,

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  you've got the mites, probably about 90% of people, and they're very small,

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  about between one-tenth and one-third of a millimeter, and so you can't really see them,

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