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Did you know...

...that the average person swallows 8 spiders while they are sleeping?
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Totally gross.

Did you also know that that is an urban myth?

According to snopes.com there is no way that spiders would get near us when we are sleeping with our mouths open.  That is because if our mouths are open, we are snoring and if we are snoring, we are causing a vibration that would cause the spiders not to come near us.

Did you also know that this urban myth, in 2013, spawned a meme on Tumblr that not only is my daughter's ABSOLUTE FAVORITE but also taught an entire generation about statistics?

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”


Spiders Georg was huge on Tumblr (spawning 90,000 posts) and even got his own Facebook page.

In our house, any time someone gives a statistic, Spiders Georg comes up.  It's one of our nerdy family jokes.

And here is one of my favorite quotes that I say to my daughter all the time.
"AJ kissed his daughter on the forehead.  He is delighted to have produced such a fantastic nerd" (Zevin 197).

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