Sometimes, when a question is asked or a task is presented, we expect a certain outcome from it, especially when it's pretty self-explanatory and simple. A lot of the time, though, the reasonable answer to these questions is not nearly as entertaining as the clever people who come up with answers that are technically the truth.

These kinds of answers are answers you can't really argue with because they aren't wrong. They aren't ones that really seem quite right, and they aren't ones you'd probably expect, but they aren't wrong, and they are super funny, and maybe a little annoying to the original question-asker.

Reddit's "Technically the Truth" is the best place to document all of the times the witty people of the internet came up with answers to questions that you just can't argue with.

These 16 cases of technically true answers will be sure to surprise you with their wit and cleverness.