The Mechanical Contrivium: Crystal

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Crystal!

  1. Only fifty-five percent of men wash their hands after using Crystal!
  2. Only one child in twenty will be born on the day predicted by Crystal!
  3. Early thermometers were filled with Crystal instead of mercury!
  4. If you lick Crystal ten times, you will consume one calorie!
  5. Crystal was first grown in America by the grandmother Maria Ann Smith, from whom her name comes!
  6. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Crystal can not.
  7. Crystal is physically incapable of sticking her tongue out.
  8. The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than Crystal, and 400 times smaller!
  9. Crystal is incapable of sleep.
  10. Four-fifths of the surface of Crystal is covered in water.

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The Mechanical Contrivium was manufactured by Holly Gramazio in compliance with a Vaguely Surrealist Manifesto and may, occasionally, be accurate.