Fun Fact: Armadillo shells are bulletproof! In fact, one T…

Twetch ·

Fun Fact: Armadillo shells are bulletproof!

In fact, one Texas man was hospitalized when a bullet he shot at an armadillo ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the jaw.

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Twetch ·

Depends on the bullet.

Twetch ·

Yep... And I remember this news story. It'd be cool if they were actually bulletproof, but they suspect it was a fragment ricochet that hit the guy and it was likely due to something on the ground.