I Could

have spent an entire lifetime and not have read this:

It's not just fluffy feathers or marshmallowy synthetics in that comfy pillow of yours. There are probably also more than 1 million spores of as many as 16 types of fungus.

That's what an allergy researcher found after dissecting 10 pillows that had been slept on regularly for between 18 months and 20 years.

"I was surprised at the amount of fungi," said Ashley Woodcock, professor at England's University of Manchester. "It's pretty staggering."