sanitation@lemmy.today to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoTIL At least 25 of the Snapple "Facts" are false, outdated, exaggerated or inconclusiveen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square45linkfedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down16cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up1232arrow-down1external-linkTIL At least 25 of the Snapple "Facts" are false, outdated, exaggerated or inconclusiveen.wikipedia.orgsanitation@lemmy.today to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square45linkfedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down1·1 month ago The average human will eat an average of eight spiders a year while asleep. is false. 2 things about that are great: That it is false, and that i now know who circulated this bullshit lol
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·1 month agoSpiders, of course, being notorious for liking small dark moist places devoid of the things they eat… It’s weird to me that anybody ever believed that one.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 month ago“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
minus-squareAlbbi@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 month agoIt says average. Jimmy Spider-Snacker developed narcoleptic sleep eating and really affected the mean.
minus-squareturtlesareneat@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·1 month agoIf you sleep-eat a spider egg sack as they’re hatching, that really ups the numbers too
minus-squarekambusha@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoWould you like something to drink? We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr Pepper…
minus-squareWildmimic@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoI’d like the new Dr Pepper Spider Bonanza please.
is false. 2 things about that are great: That it is false, and that i now know who circulated this bullshit lol
Spiders, of course, being notorious for liking small dark moist places devoid of the things they eat…
It’s weird to me that anybody ever believed that one.
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
It says average. Jimmy Spider-Snacker developed narcoleptic sleep eating and really affected the mean.
If you sleep-eat a spider egg sack as they’re hatching, that really ups the numbers too
Would you like something to drink? We have water, milk, juice, spiders, Dr Pepper…
I’d like the new Dr Pepper Spider Bonanza please.