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Are the Spider Eggs Used to Fill Beanie Babies Hatching?

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Snopes Staff
Nov 5, 2014 Rumors that spider eggs used to fill Beanie Babies in the 1990s are finally hatching came from a ...
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Was This Cape Spun from the Silk of Golden Orb Spiders?

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Madison Dapcevich
Apr 15, 2022 It was said that a team of 80 spent five years milking over 1.2 million spiders.
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Does This Photograph Show a Park Covered with Spider Webs?

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Dan Evon
Nov 2, 2018 We become familiar with the term "mass ballooning event."
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Did a 'New Deadly Spider' Species Kill Several People in the U.S. in the Summer of 2018?

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Dan MacGuill
Aug 22, 2018 A viral, scare-mongering Facebook post fabricated a series of fatal spider bites and used photog ...
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Did a Spider in a Tampon Result in a Disturbing Medical Emergency?

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Dan Evon
May 10, 2018 A fictional horror story about a spider, a tampon, and a trip to the emergency room was mistaken ...
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Spider Bursts Out of Overripe Banana?

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Bethania Palma
Sep 20, 2016 A viral video of a spider breaking out of a banana skin is an animation created by a talented CG ...
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Natural Repellent for Spiders?

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Dan Evon
Sep 25, 2015 Do walnuts, horse chestnuts, and Osage oranges repel spiders?
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Giant Mutant Spiders in Missouri?

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David Mikkelson
Sep 14, 2014 Photographs purportedly show giant mutant spiders produced by government DNA experiments in Miss ...
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Is This Giant Spider Real?

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David Mikkelson
Feb 7, 2013 A photograph purportedly shows a 'Giant Hawaiian Cane Spider' on the side of a house.
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Do People Swallow Eight Spiders Per Year?

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David Mikkelson
Apr 22, 2001 One of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the internet.
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Spiders in Cactus

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Barbara Mikkelson
Dec 4, 1998 Did a cactus explode and spew baby tarantulas everywhere?
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