TRIVIA - HOAXES

1. PT Barnum once exhibited a mummified version of this fabled creature, supposedly found near the Fiji Islands, which in actuality was two animals sewn together. 2. Ask people to help ban dihydrogen monoxide, since it’s a food and drink additive that contributes to acid rain and is potentially fatal, and what have you asked them to help ban? 3. Dr. Panos Zavos has several times falsely claimed to accomplish this mirrored procedure of questionable ethics, of questionable ethics. 4. According to a 1985 article in this magazine, a fictional Tibetan yogi had caught the attention of baseball scouts since he could throw a fastball 168 mph. 5. On April Fools’ Day 1957, the BBC aired a faux-report on a Swiss family that harvests this kind of Italian food grown from a nonexistent plant. 6. In October 2009, the media dubbed Falcon Heene this alliterative name, and soon thereafter his publicity-hungry parents with their faulty aerodynamic creations were known as jailbirds. 7. In 1967, counterculture heads Allen Ginsberg and Abbey Hoffman held a press conference in Arlington, Va, where they claimed they could levitate this fortified building.