According to National Geographic, a black widow’s venom is believed to be 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s. (Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images) CHAYANTA, Bolivia - It’s well documented how Spider-Man got his superpowers.
A plethora of films, cartoons, video games and comic books have shown Peter Parker develop wall-crawling abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider.
But when three Bolivian boys let a black widow bite them on May 14, they didn’t gain the proportional strength of a spider. They didn’t shoot webs, swinging from skyscraper to skyscraper.
They just got muscle pains, fevers, tremors and a trip to a couple of hospitals. Health officials told Telemundo that the boys, ages 12, 10 and 8, had been prodding