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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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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 ...
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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 ...

Myth or Fact: Humans Eat 8 Spiders Per Year in Their Sleep

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...
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This Spider Just Ate an Entire Bat, and We're Supposed to Carry On Like Everything Is Normal

A resident of Poteet, Texas stepped outside her home and found a spider casually dining on an entire bat in its web. In quite possibly the least relatable move of all time, instead of running for the ...
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There Have Been At Least 50 Incidents Of Spiders Capturing And Eating Bats (That We Know Of)

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...