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Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff, a production of I Heart Radio, Hey

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Speaker 1: brain Stuff, lorn Boga bam here. Have you ever heard

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Speaker 1: that we humans swallow an average of eight spiders each

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Speaker 1: year while we sleep, or that the average person swallows

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Speaker 1: fifty two spiders over the course of a lifetime. These

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Speaker 1: so called facts are so widespread that it may be

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Speaker 1: hard to believe that they're completely inaccurate. The fact is,

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Speaker 1: the odds of swallowing even a single spider over your

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Speaker 1: entire lifetime are so low that their virtually zero. It's

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Speaker 1: extremely unlikely that a spider would even approach a sleeping human,

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Speaker 1: much less crawl into their open mouth and wait to die.

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Speaker 1: While just one in four people admit to a fear

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Speaker 1: of spiders and insects, spiders are generally much more afraid

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Speaker 1: of you than you are of them. Think about it.

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Speaker 1: The spider uses vibrations to sense danger, as sleep in

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Speaker 1: human is nothing but noise and vibration, from your breath

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Speaker 1: and heartbeat to tossing and turning, to snores, snorts, and

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Speaker 1: other sounds. Everything about a human even at rest, signals

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Speaker 1: for spiders to steer clear, giving them no incentive to

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Speaker 1: creep into your bed during the night. They prefer to

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Speaker 1: hang out in quiet, unoccupied parts of the home and

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Speaker 1: spend their time attending to their webs. Um But what

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Speaker 1: if you happen to come into contact with a spider

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Speaker 1: whose ability to sense vibrations is off. Sure, it's possible

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Speaker 1: that a spider that was going against every natural instinct

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Speaker 1: could find its way into your mouth, but it's still

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Speaker 1: extremely unlikely. At First, you'd have to have your mouth

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Speaker 1: open while you snooze, which is far from a universal trait. Next,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to find a way to sleep through the

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Speaker 1: sensation of a spider crawling its way across your face

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Speaker 1: and into your mouth. Finally, you'd have to actually swallow

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Speaker 1: while sleeping, which is not automatically going to happen. Hopefully,

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Speaker 1: the spider would change its mind or get bored and

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Speaker 1: crawl back out of your mouth before the stars got

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Speaker 1: align enough for all of these events to occur. There

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Speaker 1: is not a single reliable report anywhere in the scientific

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Speaker 1: or medical literature to prove that anyone has ever swallowed

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Speaker 1: a spider while sleeping, much less eight per year. That

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Speaker 1: being said, you absolutely can eat spiders. Your body will

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Speaker 1: digest it just like any other food that you eat.

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Speaker 1: Cambodian cuisine includes a dish of fried tarantula that's said

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Speaker 1: to taste a bit like fried prawns. Today's episode is

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Speaker 1: based on the article do we really Swallow Spiders in

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Speaker 1: our sleep? On how stuffworks dot Com? Written by Bambi Turner.

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