VISITORS to Bull City Burger and Brewery in Durham, North Carolina in the USA are being offered a unique delicacy as part of an annual Exotic Meat Month.
The eatery has previously allowed patrons to taste alligator, iguana, pythons, turtles and insects, but this year has gone one creepy step further with a special Tarantula Challenge.
"Lucky" diners selected via a random draw can claim a $30 spider burger, which features a beef patty topped with a tasty roasted tarantula.
You should always wash your hands when you go to the bathroom, right?
Of course - but when it comes to drying them, it may be better to just let it happen naturally.
A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology has found electric hand dryers may be putting more filth on your fingers, rather than drying them off.
The researchers exposed plates to 30 seconds blowing from a bathroom hand dryer, and found they accumulated between 18 and 60 bacterial colonies - in contrast to plates simply left in the bathroom for two minutes, which had less than one colony.
The authors found the dryer nozzles had minimal bacterial levels themselves, with more research required to figure out whether they were breeding grounds for disease, or just blew lots of contaminated hot air.
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