Fact and Fiction Files

 

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 1^st 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.