18 June, 2011 / by Ryan / Humour / No Comments

50 things u didn’t know about whales

Myles has an end of school assembly this Thursday. At the assembly he’s part of a performance about whales. There’s a lovely song he’s been practicing called Baby Beluga. And he’s been rehearsing a fact that he must recite in front of everyone:

1F (his class) has been learning about whales. Did you know that whales breath air?

When he was practicing in the car on the way home, I thought I’d have some fun and suggest some other facts that he might like to also share. All the facts were made up of course. Then the challenge was set to come up with 50 things that people didn’t know (because they’re totally made up):

  1. Did you know whales are colour-blind
  2. Did you know whales taste like chicken
  3. Did you know whales sing mostly in the key of C#
  4. Did you know whales fart thru their blowholes
  5. Did you know whales are right-handed
  6. Did you know the width of a whale’s tale fin is the same as the distance between its eyes
  7. Did you know whales have 6 different stomachs
  8. Did you know whales and the dung beatle share 97% the same DNA
  9. Did you know whale blubber was used in the original snow cones
  10. Did you know whales were the inspiration for the hay bale’s shape and name
  11. Did you know whales abide by a 30 hour day
  12. Did you know when whales sleep they sink
  13. Did you know whales can swim in a depth of water half their height
  14. Did you know whale literally means “heavy plops”
  15. Did you know whales live in all seven oceans, and three of the Great Lakes
  16. Did you know Nostradamus predicted whales would grow legs by the year 3000
  17. Did you know whales are responsible for the inadvertent explosion of 10,000 navy mines per year
  18. Did you know each adult whale consumes 1 tonne of pollution per year
  19. Did you know whales get sunburnt in Summer waters
  20. Did you know whales can’t turn left
  21. Did you know whales can only turn right
  22. Did you know whales can live in excess of 45o years
  23. Did you know whales are scared of star fish
  24. Did you know whales change species in the absence of viable breeding partners

… and I (happily) failed.

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