Web Slinging

Here are some little-known facts about spiders that might keep you up late tonight. I hope.

• Though they are scientifically classified as not having antennae, two of each spider's legs function the same way as antennae. And they use them to pick up cell-phone signals.
• The events of Charlotte's Web actually occurred as written, except for one minor point that was left out of the book. Charlotte saved that pig because a million of her babies were about to burst forth from its stomach.
• Geometry was actually invented by a spider.
• The following types of spiders are, in fact, not made up: jumping spider, hobo spider, tooth cave spider, trapdoor spider, net-casting spider, and ant mimic spider.
• When you kill a spider, all spiders everywhere know it.
• For every person on this planet, there exists a spider large enough to cover his or her face. Luckily, these spiders live only in the jungle. For now.