"This one really cracked me up," writes Rozalin-Mohanty on Quora.com. "The picture shows a picture of an Angolan witch spider, or a giant Hawaiian cane spider, on the wall of a house in Texas. Rumours were widely circulated about how this spider eat cats and dogs, and that it took several gunshots to kill the creature! In reality, it is just a photo-shopped image created by artist Paulo Santo Maria. He posted the image on his Facebook just for fun, but it went viral in no time. Today, the largest known spider alive is the goliath birdeater tarantula from South America. According to the Guinness World Records, the largest of its kind is 28cm long. Also, spiders could simply never grow that big due to biological constraints. So, don't panic."
Deep thoughts in aisle three
A letter to the editor at the Telegraph: "I was assisting my 16-year-old daughter with her homework when she received a text from mum, which read: 'What do you want from life?'. This was an unexpected and profound question for an exam-sitting teenager. We debated various answers - wealth, fulfilment, love, all three. Five minutes later, she received a second message, blaming predictive text for correcting the word Lidl*." David Lavelle, Coneythorpe, North Yorkshire. *Lidl is a discount supermarket chain.
Little knowledge can be dangerous
A reddit user says: "My colleague's twin sons are about 3 years old. They regularly walk up to the flat screen TV and swipe their hands across the screen in an effort to change the channel. It's incredible how frame of reference can change your experiences." Another user replies: "Thanks, I just figured out why my TV has fingerprints going across it in a swipe pattern. I have a 3-year-old."
