20 Facts That Sound Like Bullsh*t But Are Totally True

12. There Was Once A War Started By A Game Of Football.

Nothing like a bit of friendly rivalry at the match, eh? Not the case at this football game between El Salvador and Honduras in July 1969. Tensions between the teams, fuelled by the economic inequality between the two countries, soon magnified into fights. Not unheard of, you say? This sort of thing happens at footy games all the time. As a result of the football fighting, Salvadoran immigrants were expelled from Honduras, and the countries went to war. 2,000 people were killed in 16 days, until The Organization of American States intervened and stopped the war. Well, that escalated quickly.