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.
Published 1 year ago in Funny
A collection of odd and interesting facts so bizarre they must be true.
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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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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