Found out the average person swallows 8 spiders a year is total garbage, and I believed it for 15 years

Gray Shah · 2026-09-17T20:00:03.620879+00:00

Looked it up on Snopes after my kid asked me about it at dinner, and it turns out the whole stat was made up by a magazine writer in 1993 to prove people will believe anything online. What random "fact" did you carry around for years before finding out it was fake?

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