Don’t sweat it though – you probably won’t die from a spider bite anyway.
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So go ahead, let your irrational fear of spiders be replaced by a slightly less irrational fear of popping champagne at parties.
If you’re not worried about falling spiders, you should be worried about falling meteorites.
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So you don’t necessarily have to go running for your titanium shield umbrellas, but between 37,000 and 87,000 tons of meteor material falls to Earth every single year. Much of this is in the form of dust, but approximately 20,000 meteorites greater than 10 grams collide with earth every year, so keep it in the back of your mind.
If you live in the US, another thing to look out for is bullets.
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The topic of gun control is hot on the minds of most people in the U.S. right now, and for good reason. There’s gotta be something wrong with a policy where soldiers are more likely to be killed on home soil than in combat.