hardly appealing. They explain: “Your open, moist mouth isn’t appealing to a spider. Spiders breathe oxygen and would be repelled by your mouth, which to them would seem like a warm ...

We have all heard the rumour, right? That over a lifetime, humans swallow around 20 spiders in our sleep. Now, given that the average life expectancy in the UK is over the age of 80, that’s not too ...