TIL Spider Silk is so strong it has been theorized by scientists that a single strand the width of a pencil could stop a Boeing 747 in mid flight

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/spider/page2.htm



Submitted April 08, 2015 at 08:01AM by BoredBlocks http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31tstb/til_spider_silk_is_so_strong_it_has_been/