Humans swallowing spiders while sleeping is a highly unlikely myth • It is a myth that a human will swallow an average of four (or any number) of spiders while sleeping during his or her life. It is highly unlikely a spider will ever end up in a sleeping human’s mouth. [15]

Book of Curiosities Exhibited’, American Friends of the Bodleian Newsletter, 44 (Spring 2004), p. 2. The BBC first broadcast Big Ben’s chimes to the country during a New Year’s Eve radio broadcast in 1923.

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Most spiders have eight eyes and are very near sighted. Spiders also have tiny hairs on their legs to help them hear and smell. [2] The bell’s strikes were broadcast internationally for the first time in 1932, during King George V’s Christmas broadcast on the Empire Service (later the World Service). Book 1 – Chapter 7: On obscure stars with drawn lances (?) in the ninth heaven, which have immense favorable and malevolent influences Spiders can’t fly, but they sometimes sail through the air on a line of silk, which is known as “ballooning.” [8]

Book 2 – Chapter 20: On the marvellous aquatic creatures amongst the fishes and the monsters of the sea Savage-Smith, Emilie, and Yossef Rapoport (eds.), The Book of Curiosities: A critical edition. World-Wide-Web publication. ( www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/bookofcuriosities). (March 2007). Boxe, Agata. “ Spider-Man: 5 Weird Effects of Spider Bites.” Live Science. May 2, 2014. Accessed: January 23, 2015. Nicola. "In the Future, We’ll All Wear Spider Silk." The New Yorker. March 12, 2017. Accessed: June 17, 2018. Roxani, Margariti Eleni; Sabra, Adam; Sijpesteijn, Petra M., eds. (2011-01-01). Histories of the Middle East. doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004184275.i-282. ISBN 9789004214736.The world’s biggest spider is the goliath spider ( Theraphosa blondi). It can grow up to 11 inches wide, and its fangs are up to one inch long. It hunts frogs, lizards, mice, and even small snakes and young birds. [16] Arachnophobia is the fear of the spiders. It is one of the most common phobias in North America and Europe. Arachnophobia is less common in tropical places where there are more large, hairy spiders. [12] The brown recluse gets its name from its color and its "shy" nature • The bite of the brown recluse spider, which is found in the southeastern United States, is particularly dangerous because its bite is initially painless. A person may be bitten without realizing it, but after awhile the skin starts to swell and become incredibly painful. A bite could kill a person if not treated. [1] The curious Book of Curiosities’, subsection of ‘Mapping Arabia’, by James V. Parry, in Saudi Aramco World, 55 (2004), pp. 20-37, esp. p. 31.