"SPIDERS COULD THEORETICALLY EAT EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH IN ONE YEAR," said a recent headline in The Washington Post. An infographic bearing the title, "The crushing weight of spiders" followed, explaining that the world's spider population weighs 29 million tons — the equivalent of 478 Titan-ics. And, if you didn't gather from the article's lead, these 29 million tons of arachnids apparently have voracious appetites: "... spiders could eat all of us and still be hungry," it went on to say.
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