Is it a myth or is it the truth?

[vResistance]

 

Anyway, statistical human eats about 5 spiders during his sleep over whole lifetime.

You're raising the average!

 

I don't think we really eat spiders at night(maybe jabberwocky does)

Quote -

"In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of "facts" that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous "facts," among which was the statistic ... about the average person swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a "delicious" irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet"

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from http://www.qi.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=1535&start=1&sid=1e4fa431f7f21c6948dd3ac4743ee3d3

[Vague_Boy]

They are poisonous but harmless since they're toothless. However the daddy long legs eats the mummy long legs after she's given birth to the baby long legs

 

That's one way of avoiding the high cost of alimony.

[Phanerothyme]

"mythunderstanding"

 

Good word; useful.

[vResistance]

Good word; useful.

 

Thanks,i think i made it up.

[splodgeyAl]

I find that most people actually want to learn, provided you don't come across as self-righteous and superior when you're teaching them. (Sometimes, on an internet forum, it's hard to tell the difference between a helpful titbit and a snotty, point-scoring correction.)

Yep, my experience too