Unusual Facts Thread

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 6:56 am

The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.

Valenth · Post by **Valenth** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 12:42 pm

Trichophobia is the fear of hair.

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:55 pm

Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 2:57 pm

Valenth wrote:Trichophobia is the fear of hair.

My head must have Trichophobia

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:16 pm

A grasshopper can leap 20 times the length of its own body.

Valenth · Post by **Valenth** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 4:39 pm

noreply66 wrote:
Valenth wrote:Trichophobia is the fear of hair.

My head must have Trichophobia

uh oh!

Valenth · Post by **Valenth** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:37 pm

Interesting High School Basketball Fact:

Ashland, KY Tomcats Boys Basketball actually won a National Championship in the late 1920's.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:56 pm

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.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:56 pm

Valenth wrote:
noreply66 wrote:
Valenth wrote:Trichophobia is the fear of hair.

My head must have Trichophobia

uh oh!

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:58 pm

Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:59 pm

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:05 am

a raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:11 am

Killer whales are not whales at all, rather a species of dolphin.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:12 am

An elephant can smell water up to 3 miles away.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:16 am

The blue whale weighs as much as thirty elephants and is as long as three Greyhound buses.

TRENCHFOOT · Post by **TRENCHFOOT** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 5:19 am

A whale’s heart beats only nine times a minute.

Valenth · Post by **Valenth** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 1:22 pm

The Bay of Fundy produces the Worlds highest Tides.. (Over 75-150ft tall)

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:02 pm

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

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:17 pm

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world.

Valenth · Post by **Valenth** » Fri Dec 18, 2015 6:22 pm

The USA and Canada share the longest unguarded border on earth.

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