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by Ardon 1301 days ago
When I was bored in school I ran down the original source for the claim on the Honey Badger wikipedia page that they can take several bullets and keep coming.

It turns out that the source was a book, which was citing a news story, which was about a letter a farmer had written in. I recall tagging this in the backed with 'weak source' (or something).

Checking back now, the claim has been changed to: "The only sure way of killing them quickly is through a blow to the skull with a club or a shot to the head with a gun, as their skin is almost impervious to arrows and spears."

Which is more plausible a claim than the original, and I'm absolutely prepared to believe killing a Honey Badger with arrows is hard, but the source still isn't actually proving that.

Anyway it was a useful lesson for younger me about Wikipedia.