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LONDON, July 15th (Reuters) – For years, people have put conkers around their houses, believing their shininess or smell kept spiders away, but now a group of shoolchildren have proved the theory is false.
Year 5 and 6 pupils at Roselyon School, in Par, Cornwall won a nationwide challenge by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) -- and a 300 pound prize -- to discover the truth about spiders and conkers.
Official: spiders are not afraid of conkers - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100715/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_spiders - broken link)
Hmmm... had to do some research, but it appears that hedge apples and horse chestnuts are not the same thing, although many people think they are. And that a conker is a horse chestnut.
Whew. Glad we cleared that up. lol
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