(thing) by dustfromamoth Sat Aug 25 2001 at 12:39:21
Delicious Little Details:
some of this information is from funtrivia.com and some is from the recesses of my memory

  • Flamingos are pink because of the food they eat (shrimp). This is due to the beta-carotene content. Flamingos that don't eat shrimp are plain white. This is similar to humans who turn orange if they eat too many carrots.

  • Ancient Romans ate the tongues of flamingos; like bear’s paws they were considered a delicacy.

  • 1 out of 300 people have an irrational phobia of pink flamingos.

  • Flamingos feel most secure when they are crowded together, hundreds of them in a group.

  • Flamingos live outstandingly long lives; up to eighty years.

  • Don Featherstone from the Massachusetts created the pink lawn ornament. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as some kind of a follow-up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos in a year.

  • There are more plastic flamingos in America than actual real ones!

  • There were pink flamingos in Alice in Wonderland.

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