Oh God Why: Day Three: IT'S LOOOOOOSE (18/30)

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Spiders are arthropods, which mean they have primordial soup in a chitinous shell instead of organs. They squirt this soup out of their joints to move around via jet propulsion.


Spiders cannot turn clockwise, but can dispatch prey several times their size using venom injected from their chelicerae.


Contrary to popular belief, spiders cannot dance. What you see here are many-legged currants.


The peacock spider, an accomplished rhythmic-mover, is neither a true spider nor a peacock. In truth, it is a type of wren.


All spiders are carnivorous, with any one able to capture and incapacitate prey up to six hundred times its own size. Bagheera kiplingi is an exception, a vegetarian spider named in homage to Rudyard Kipling. It eats bananas, panthers, and whole jungles if left unchecked.





According to folklore, accidentally eating a spider is good luck.


Different spider families can be distinguished by their different numbers and arrangements of eyes. Some species have no eyes; others have eyes on the end of their mouthparts. Some even have an odd number, or are asymmetrically arranged around their face!


Some spiders can build trapdoors, but use them to keep people out rather than ensnaring the clumsy-footed or incautious. Spiders will instead kill you in honourable hand-to-hand combat.



Spider hands are fully retractable, much like a cat's claws. They have two thumbs, protective fur, and can accurately shoot their highly venomous fingernails into your throat from across a room.


The black widow spider, despite its name, has 100% male catch rate in the wild.


White spiders contain the genetic information for every pigmentation that can be biologically produced, though they do not express any themselves. Because of this, if two white spiders breed their offspring can be any combination of any colours of the rainbow (and some that aren't).


This spider is named after the 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama.


That concludes my currently-available facts about spiders, although I'd love to tell you more about them if you're interested.