Humans (on average)
eat 6 spiders a year while they sleep...



100% FACT

From the 100% Fact challenge. See all 469 entries (closed)

(Pouched_species, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:06, archived)

i'm using
masking tape at night from now on
( e.parsley, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:08, archived)

eat em up eat em up
Gobble them down like phishheads :P
( savagehenry, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:09, archived)

usually not
all in the first year.

eek that's a lovely/horrible shop. woo!
( jeffcapeshop, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:09, archived)

That
has freaked me out more than pretty much anything ever.
You cunt.


(P.S. woo yay)
( TV's Nosemonkey, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:10, archived)

The CIA
will tell you that is all bollocks.
www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm
( butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:11, archived)

Hmmm...
...coincidence, or a conspiracy?
( Mystery_Bob, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:12, archived)

Fucking conspiracy, I tells you!
www.femke.co.uk/sn.htm
( butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:18, archived)

I don't like snopes.
It says water doesn't drain a different way in opposite hemispheres. Adam Hart-Davis did an experiment on TV. He must have been lying. I'll never trust him again.
( Kamikaze Stoat balanced for lean, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:23, archived)

I wouldn't trust
snopes as far as I could throw it. And my arms are weak.
( butchbint, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:27, archived)

He he he...
...but damn Snopes for ruining all the cool stuff you hear.

www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm
( Mystery_Bob, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:11, archived)

ooh
snopes mindpiss

although that does give me a lot of comfort
( Or is it?, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:12, archived)

yay for eating spiders!

(The Cosmic Boy Zombie (Formerly Pirate Cat), Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:14, archived)

eep!

( Or is it?, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:15, archived)

I told that to an ex
and she didn't sleep for a week.

100% of FACT!
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Wed 29 Oct 2003, 23:23, archived)

crunch
they like the saliva. i wonder if thats why you feel ill some of the time? maybe thats just too much booze?
(masterbassist, Thu 30 Oct 2003, 15:25, archived)