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(#11) Tea Brewed With Spiders In The Pot Is Dangerous
The Myth: A family of six perished after they left a tea kettle full of water out overnight. A spider crawled in and secreted venom into the water. The next day, the family used the leftover water to make tea and succumbed to the venom soon after drinking it.
The Reality: Even if you drink water with a spider in it, you're not going to feel the effects of its venom. Venom and poison are two very different substances. While simply ingesting poison is enough to trigger its effects, venom has to be injected directly into the bloodstream. That's why venomous spiders have fangs - to efficiently inject venom into their prey. Additionally, the venom would be so diluted by the water it's unlikely it would have any effect. After boiling it, your spider-venom tea is as harmless as Earl Grey.
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(#6) Spiders Bite You While You're On The John
The Myth: Spiders are lurking just under your toilet seat! Venmous spiders known as two-striped telamonias are commonly found just under toilet seats, and they are a major threat when it's time to do your business. Multiple people have been sent to the hospital after being bitten in restrooms at airports and Olive Gardens.
The Reality: Don't worry, toilet spiders are a hoax. This myth originated back in 1999 in a story so ridiculous, even your grandmother wouldn't believe it. For one, the spider species referenced in the hoax isn't even venomous. There are also no medical reports available that detail any situation in which a person was bitten by a spider hiding in their toilet.
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(#4) Spiders Are Your Winter Cuddle Buddies
The Myth: Winter is coming, and spiders come with it. While spiders spend the majority of their time outdoors, they rush into homes during the winter months to keep warm.
The Reality: Good news! Spiders don't rush into your homes during the winter. Instead, they happen to be living with you year round. It's true that spiders are more visible during autumn, but that's not because they're invading your home. Spiders mate in the late summer and early autumn months, so you're more likely to see male spiders frantically searching for a mate.
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(#5) Spiders Lived In A Woman's Hair
The Myth: A woman rocking a bouffant hairstyle met her end under mysterious circumstances. Upon examination, doctors found a colony of spiders living in her hair. Her passing was attributed to spider venom injections directly to the scalp.
The Reality: This myth dates all the way back to the 1950s, when beehive hairstyles were all the rage. There are a few different variations of this story, but none of them hold any weight. There's no evidence anyone ever perished from spiders in their hair.
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(#1) Spiders Crawl In Your Mouth While You Sleep
The Myth: The average person eats roughly eight spiders a year while sleeping. This mostly occurs as spiders inadvertantly crawl into our mouths as we snooze.
The Reality: Spiders haven't evolved over millions of years to climb into random animals' mouths - that's a perfect recipe for doom. According to biologist Bill Shear, spiders don't even really perceive us in the way we perceive them. To them, we're so big that we're just part of the landscape. They tend to avoid us whenever possible, including when we're in bed. The slight vibrations our bodies give off are enough to trigger a spider's senses and let it know it needs to back away from danger.
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(#12) The Daddy Longlegs Is The Most Poisonous Spider On Earth
The Myth: The daddy longlegs is an extremely venomous spider, but it isn't a threat to humans. Its fangs are too short to penetrate our skin, saving us from this hyper-venomous beast.
The Reality: First of all, most daddy longlegs aren't even spiders. They are their own branch of the arachnid family known as Opiliones. These arachnids only have two eyes and can't produce silk. There are long-legged spiders in the Pholcidae family, but they have only recently been nicknamed "daddy longlegs spiders" due to public confusion. Opiliones have no venom, and spiders in the Pholcidae family are not known to bite humans, so their venom has never been tested. It's impossible to know if they are "the most venomous" spiders because we don't even know how venomous they are in general.
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For many people, the spider is one of the most terrible animals in the world. They are small, but they can bring huge fear. There are many types of spiders, not all varieties have fatal toxicity, but their unique appearance is sufficient to cause people to disgust. The reason why spiders make so many people are afraid because of some of the long-awaited horror legends and myths.
Most spiders are harmless, people have learned to have a total of thousands of years. The ancient Greek already had related legends about the spider and has been circulating. You could know 12 creepy myths and urban legends about spiders in this random tool.
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