6 Ridiculous stories you actually believe

[PickelledEggs]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/6-ridiculous-historical-stories-you-think-are-true-1052

I love clickhole and it's complete and blatant bull-shittery

[Jason78]

Every schoolchild knows the tale of Johnny Appleseed

Who?

[Hydra009]

They must've meant every child who went to school in the 19th century.

[Mike Cl]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/6-ridiculous-historical-stories-you-think-are-true-1052

I love clickhole and it's complete and blatant bull-shittery

The not so funny story is that much of our US History books are crammed with stories which are not true or really stretching a tale. 
For example, Franklin did not fly that kite.  He was not that stupid.  He had a kid (a child from a girl friend I think, that he chose to raise) fly the kite and he stood in a dry shed a managed the experiment from there. 

Columbus did not discover America.  Who knows who did. 500 years earlier the Norse settled in Newfoundland.  Only lasted 20 years, but that was still North America.  Some speculation about the Chinese and Japanese came here before then.  And the fact is, that America did not need to be discovered, since there had been people living in for 20,000 to 40,000 years.

We are not all that good teaching real history in our schools.

[stromboli]

I actually knew all 6 of those because I'm smart. 

[aitm]

I don't get it.

[PickelledEggs]

I don't get it.

It's a joke. Clickhole just makes up bogus stories where usually nothing is accurate. The whole website is a parody of the internet.

[Hydra009]

Columbus did not discover America.  Who knows who did.

Well, the native Americans are a strong contender.  :P

[PickelledEggs]

Well, the native Americans are a strong contender.  :P

Yeah. Of course the second time it was actually discovered it was, I think, Leif Ericsson.

[Shiranu]

I honestly believed number 6 :\. This changes everything...

[PickelledEggs]

I honestly believed number 6 :\. This changes everything...

Wait. which one. The original? or the one replaced by Clickhole?

[Hydra009]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/conflict-gaza-explained-one-long-noise-978

Still more informative than Fox News.

[Mike Cl]

http://www.clickhole.com/article/conflict-gaza-explained-one-long-noise-978

Still more informative than Fox News.

And more accurate.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

The Founding fathers discovered Bengazi..

[Mike Cl]

BTW, that's Faux News--a chuckle a day.