We can finally rest easy.
You've heard it, haven't you? The "fact" that "everyone eats eight spiders a year in their sleep".. well, it turns out it's all an old wives tale.
Scientific American did research on this in 2014 and discovered it's utter rubbish - thank heavens.
Quite unsurprisingly, spiders don't tend to like hanging out in human areas much, preferring to build their webs in "non human infested areas". Can't say we blame them, mind you.
If you have a phobia of spiders, you might feel they they're "out to get you". Well, Bill Shear who is a biology professor at Hampden–Sydney College in Virginia said that "spiders regard us much like they’d regard a big rock [...] We’re so large that we’re really just part of the landscape".
You can read more on that study here.
