20 Funny Facts So Dumb They Must Be True

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20 Funny Facts So Dumb They Must Be True

While some things sound ridiculous, these facts are actually true. At r/AskReddit we found some of the stupidest facts that people would never believe, but turns out they're true.

By RustyBuckler

Published 2 years ago in Funny

A collection of odd and interesting facts so bizarre they must be true.

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Of the few people who have top secret clearance at the White House one of them is the person who writes all of the party invitations. u/Eejaypea14

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While some things sound ridiculous, these facts are actually true. At r/AskReddit we found some of the stupidest facts that people would never believe, but turns out they're true.

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Female spotted hyenas have bigger penises than the males. u/stuloch

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Sloths are most vulnerable to predators when going #2 . They have to climb down to the trees to the forest floor, and it is a bit of a process for them to actually go, leaving them at risk of predators. u/Faultiergeist

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For every single human being on Earth, there are 2.5 MILLION ants. Yes, this means that there are about 20 QUADRILLION ants on this planet. If the ants decide to take over, are you strong enough to handle the 2.5 million that you'll be responsible for killing? If you've got kids, you might have to kill more because a 2 year old isn't going to accomplish a thing if millions of ants are marching towards them. u/PM-ME-FOR-CATNIP

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The vikings, who came from Scandinavia, used iron as their main ingredient for forging weaponry, but it was also common practice to add the bones of dead animals to the mix. The belief was that it would infuse the weapon with the spirit of the creature, making it stronger, but they ended up making a primitive version of steel because of the carbon in the bones mixing with the iron making the weapon stronger, just as they thought it would. u/Nameless_Chad

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Cows have best friends and can become stressed when they're separated from them. u/berrybandz_

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The original name for the color orange was "geoluhread," which means "yellow-red" in Old English u/willyw0nka_

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I’m closer to being a millionaire than Bill Gates is. u/i_am_cullivan

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A man named Wilmer McLean owned a farm in Manassas, Virginia USA where the very first battle of the US Civil War was fought. After the battle he's like "I'm outta here" and bought a farm way out in the country at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia...where Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Gen. Ulysses Grant in McLeans living room four years later. u/rgrtom

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Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way u/Elementus94

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Male rhesus macaques will pay to see pictures of female monkey butts. Payment is in the form of trading their juice rewards. u/WantAllMyGarmonbozia

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A man named John Young brought a corned beef sandwich to space illegally and shared it with his colleague on board and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the recording of them talking about the sandwich. u/Watermelonseeds8u

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Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not true berries (in botanical terms berries are defined by their structure, and bananas fit the bill while strawberries don't). u/willyw0nka_