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Humans Don’t Eat 8 Spiders Per Year in Their Sleep — Here’s How We’d Know If We Did

Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? Thankfully, no. Researchers explain why and how we’d know if we were swallowing ...
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19 Interesting Facts About Spiders

A subgroup of air-breathing, terrestrial (land) arthropods, spiders are not actually insects but rather belong to the Class Arachnida (a.k.a. arachnid). Besides spiders, other arachnids include ...
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Spiders could theoretically eat every human on Earth in one year

Spiders are quite literally all around us. A recent entomological survey of North Carolina homes turned up spiders in 100 percent of them, including 68 percent of bathrooms and more than ...
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No, you don’t swallow 8 spiders in sleep and here’s the test

I do not swallow eight spiders a year in my sleep, and neither does anyone else. The familiar statistic survives as a viral ...
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Joro spiders attack and eat each other sometimes: ‘Nonsexual cannibalism’

Excited for the joro spider invasion?! Well if you’re an arachnophobe, this probably isn’t for you. But if you’re interested in wildlife and nature, you may have a chance to watch the large black and ...