Ever heard the sound of a narwhal scream when you snap its tusk? Well, it sounds a bit like this but with more bloodcurdling, ultra-frequency squeaking. We’ve been obsessed with these creatures ever since we saw an Inuit family chowing down on narwhal blubber in our Greenland scene report. Here are some fun facts we’ve learned about narwhals that you can maybe drop at a douchey cocktail party where everyone’s trying to one up each other on their hatred of Bush or why Jon Stewart should be President of Facebook…

* Narwhal tusk skulls are responsible for people believing in unicorns. The bone is supposed to have magical properties – like if you drink out of a Narwhal ivory cup it can counteract the terminal effects of poison. Handy!

* Narwhal tusks are basically an elongated tooth that can grow up to 3 meters long. 1 in 500 narwhals have two tusks. The tusks give Narwhals sexual power; the bigger, the better. If you see a pod of narwhals jousting each other, they’re not fighting, they’re actually rubbing ocean crap off each other’s tusks – a bit like brushing  each other’s teeth.

* The Inuit legend about how the narwhal came to be centers on a wicked whale-hunting mother who treated her son like a dork. One day, the son harpooned a huge whale in the head and it dragged the old hag into the sea. As she drowned in the icy waters, her hair wrapped around the harpoon, thereby producing the narwhal.

* The clicks and squeaks that Narwhals emit create a natural echolocation radar that enables them to locate their prey (usually squid and cod).

* Narwhal means corpse whale, so called because of their pallid colour and the fact that they spend a lot of time lolling around belly-up as if they’re dead. They’re actually very fast swimmers when they want to be (like when they’re being pursued by a Killer Whale).