• Waker@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This reminds me of the “you eat X amount of spiders in your sleep every year”. It’s also been debunked so many times and I see it popping up from time to time.

    Even more ironic, this was created by some professor (?) to prove that starting fake viral facts was easy or something…

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      1 year ago

      If you just add the words on average, suddenly it sounds more realistic, because who knows if there’s a guy somewhere sleepwalking in a spider infested place

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      1 year ago

      Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.

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      1 year ago

      Oh, and X% of dust is dead skincells. There is a good Veritasium video on this clai.