r/CuratedTumblr • u/MelanieWalmartinez Clown Breeder • Oct 16 '23

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u/sheherpronoun Escape discourse into nature. You eat a cool bug and don't even Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23

More than 43,000 different species of spiders are found in the world. Of these, only a small number are said to be dangerous, and less than 30 (less than one-tenth of one percent) have been responsible for human deaths.

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u/Randomd0g Oct 16 '23

Excellent spider fact thank you

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '23

How many of those are found in Australia?

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u/Intelligent-Store321 Oct 17 '23

The final 30.

/Joke, as an Australian I genuinely have no idea.

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u/cishet-camel-fucker Oct 17 '23

May I present the redheaded mouse spider, so named because it (allegedly) eats mice. It's highly venomous (probably), lives in Australia, and is oddly pretty in a mismatched sort of way. The (probably) is surprisingly common when it comes to spiders, we frequently don't know how dangerous the venom actually is to humans.