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Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:56 am
by TRENCHFOOT
The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:42 pm
by Valenth
Trichophobia is the fear of hair.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:55 pm
by noreply66
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:57 pm
by noreply66
Valenth wrote:Trichophobia is the fear of hair.
My head must have Trichophobia
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:16 pm
by TRENCHFOOT
A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:39 pm
by Valenth
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:37 pm
by Valenth
Interesting High School Basketball Fact:
Ashland, KY Tomcats Boys Basketball actually won a National Championship in the late 1920's.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:56 pm
by TRENCHFOOT
The flea can jump up to 200 times its own height. This is equal to a man jumping the Empire State Building in New York.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:56 pm
by TRENCHFOOT
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:58 pm
by TRENCHFOOT
Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:59 pm
by TRENCHFOOT
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:05 am
by noreply66
a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:11 am
by TRENCHFOOT
Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:12 am
by TRENCHFOOT
An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:16 am
by TRENCHFOOT
The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:19 am
by TRENCHFOOT
A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:22 pm
by Valenth
The Bay of Fundy produces the Worlds highest Tides.. (Over 75-150ft tall)
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:02 pm
by noreply66
Barbie's life-size measurements would be 39-23-33, standing 7' 2" tall with a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:17 pm
by BubbleGumTiger
Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.
Re: Unusual Facts Thread
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:22 pm
by Valenth
The USA and Canada share the longest unguarded border on earth.