Numbers Don't Lie
______ is the world’s largest spider by mass.
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The goliath birdeater (Theraphosa blondi) is the world’s largest spider by mass.
You don’t really swallow eight spiders a year in your sleep.
There’s a good chance you’ve heard this common misconception about spiders crawling into your mouth while you snooze, but it’s just that: an urban legend. It simply doesn’t make sense on a biological or behavioral level for us or our eight-legged friends, who are highly sensitive to vibrations and therefore not inclined to approach a sleeping (and often snoring) human — especially since it wouldn’t end much better for them than it would for us.