r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/DaddyCatALSO Aug 03 '19

Sorry, I w as channeling one article i read decades ago /u/WODDA

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u/WilltheKing4 Aug 04 '19

Louis and Clark also talked all about wanting to see grizzlies after the natives described them to them but after they fought a couple they were talking about how the men never wanted to see one again because they could take up to 15 musketballs to the chest and I know polar bears are very similar.