• june@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So you’re telling me it’s NOT because they like to crawl into your ears while you’re asleep?

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      1 year ago

      This is blowing my mind right now… Those things gave me nightmares as a kid thinking they crawl into people’s ears…

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      1 year ago

      If you want to lose the solace that fact has provided you, here’s another possibly also false but no less comforting bit of trivia:

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      Leeches after feeding would love nothing more than a dark, somewhat moist, somewhat warm, somewhat tight environment. Which a human has and is probably something you don’t want a leech to get anywhere near, be glad there’s no such thing as a Analwig. Oh and land leeches exist.