FACT OR FICTION?

21 TALL TALES THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLY TRUE … … AND 21 FACTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY MYTHS

- Marissa Laliberte, Ashley Lewis and Jacopo della Quercia

’Strange but Impossibly TRUE

1 Dinosaurs had feathers. That’s what archaeologists have found in the fossil evidence of some species, including velociraptors. Whether bigger species such as Tyrannosaurus rex had them is under debate, but some scientists believe they had light feathering. In fact, researchers have long noted that chickens and other birds share skeletal similarities with T. rex and are its probable descendants.

2 McDonald’s once created bubble-gum-flavoured broccoli. Not surprisingly, the bizarre attempt to get kids to eat healthier did not go over well with the child testers.

3 You have a greater chance of dying on your birthday than on any other day of the year. In fact, the younger you are, the more likely you are to bite the bullet on your big day. So go ahead and party— but not too hard.

4 Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can. Dolphins need air after 10 minutes, but a swimming sloth can hold its breath for up to 40 minutes. Their secret: Sloths can slow their heart rate at will, reducing the need for fresh oxygen.

5 A woman was elected to the US Congress before women’s suffrage. Montana’s Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first female Congress member in 1917; all American women were given the right to vote in 1920.