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pmiller2 on Jan 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apartment, completely unused since 1942, discovere...

You'd be amazed how little dust accumulates in a place when people don't go there. That's because people are actually the source of most house dust.

Turing_Machine on Jan 1, 2014 [–]

Right. I've heard that a lot of it is actually dead skin.

ams6110 on Jan 2, 2014 | [–]

That and lint from clothing and upholstery, pet dander, etc. All things that are associated with people living in the place.

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