What can cause After Effects project files (.aep) to be large?

Some of my AE project files are over 100mb and I can't figure out why. Other projects that were created in a similar fashion are just a few KB or about 5MB and smaller. Any ideas what I could have done differently for the .aep file to be so large?

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