QUOTE (AquaticMeringue @ Mar 10 2008, 4:16 pm)

...If you're in a house where a bunch of microscopic spiders are ballooning around, you MIGHT accidentally inhale about a dozen one night, IF the air were circulating sufficiently for them to get airborne and stay there long enough to drift in front of your face. The odds of such a thing are obviously quite small, but it surely happens to someone somewhere from time to time, and that will boost the average--but not enough that I would believe that the AVERAGE person inhales the contents of one egg sac in their lifetime...The majority of people probably never swallow ANY spiders in their sleep, so the statistic will be composed of a fair number of people (still a tiny minority) that swallow one or two by accident, plus a vanishingly tiny handful of people who swallow a large number, due to a freak occurrence as above."
The majority people will never eat a spider. A tiny minority may accidently inhale microscopic spiders (or even have a grown spider fall into their mouth) in extremely rare circumstances. That's not quite the same as "People unknowingly eat spiders while they are sleeping. Fact."
OK, a lot of that is a requote, but the concept of
microscopic ballooning spiders has me tickled, it's just beautiful phrasing there.