Why do duvet covers eat all the clothes in the dry-tumbler? Question from an actual 5 years old

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Hi!
My daughter has been pondering on something mysterious and the adults around her hasn´t provided any satisfactory answers at all. So she wanted me to ask the internet.

When we dry fabrics in the dry-tumbler the duvet cover more often than not swallows parts of the accompanying clothes and sheets, forcing us to turn it inside out to get to them.
“It´s just going round, round and the water goes out so why does it eat everything?

(My suggestion of dry-tumbler gnomes was quickly and rudely rejected)

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Same as the reason that wired earbuds always seem to end up tangled in your pocket. There are more ways for the earbuds to enter a tangled state than for them to stay untangled, and there is exactly one way for the wires to untangle so there is a low probability of that event.

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