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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way u/Elementus94

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

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

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_

Coffee is not a bean it is the pit of the coffee plant which is a fruit. u/Chance-Personality50

There are more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky. u/vexix

There are clouds of alcohol floating around in space. u/Unexpected_Waffles

The surface area of Russia is larger than the surface area of Pluto. u/willyw0nka_

If you open your eyes in a completely dark room, the name of the color you will see is eigengrau, a kind of dark grey shade. u/Wisanbon

New Mexico (the state) got its name before Mexico (the country). u/HiThisIsMichael

There are more Hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the entire Solar System. u/Wadsworth_McStumpy