Thought
I would start the ball rolling with just a few unusual facts or perhaps a myth
or two dispelled.
At over 30cm long and over to
litres in volume the largest fossilised dung (also called coprolite) ever found
is believed to have belonged to T Rex.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobi
is the fear of long words. At 36 letters long this does not seem very fair to
me but this actually dates back to 1st centuary BCE and e=was used
by the Roman poet Horace
Did T Rex have feathers? In
China, scientists have discovered that the ancestors of T Rex (Cretaceous period) were covered in
feathers leading to the possibility that old fearsome was chicken like.
One for
the Darwin awards perhaps. In 1912 Franz Reichelt, a tailor by trade, wanted to
invent an early parachute. He tested his
design on a number of dummies and was so confident that he tried it himself
from the lower level of the Eiffel Tower – unfortunately, it was not successful
and he died.
Despite
it’s fame for mysterious disappearances, The Bermuda Triangle is in fact no
more dangerous than any other busy shipping area.
