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TIL that, in 2009, a wastewater treatment plant in Baltimore suffered an Orb Weaver Spider infestation of unprecedented magnitude. The population was estimated to be over 100 MILLION spiders in over 140,000 cubic feet of web. If this happened in your home you'd have 17 million spiders inside.

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