What is a quote you see everywhere that you absolutely hate?

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This reminds me of the "you eat X amount of spiders in your sleep every year". It's also been debunked so many times and I see it popping up from time to time.

Even more ironic, this was created by some professor (?) to prove that starting fake viral facts was easy or something...

If you just add the words on average, suddenly it sounds more realistic, because who knows if there's a guy somewhere sleepwalking in a spider infested place

Oh, and X% of dust is dead skincells. There is a good Veritasium video on this clai.

If i recall that explanation for the spider fact is itself just made up with no source.

Man, I always thought that one was suspect. If I eat 10 per year and have been alive 40+ years, then surely one of those times I would have woken up.