The Mechanical Contrivium: Lindy

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Lindy!

1. Humans share over 98 percent of their DNA with Lindy.
2. Humans share about fifty percent of their DNA with Lindy.
3. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Lindy!
4. During World War II, Americans tried to train Lindy to drop bombs.
5. Fifty-two percent of Americans drink Lindy!
6. 99 percent of the pumpkins sold in the US end up as Lindy!
7. The canonical hours of the Christian church are matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, Lindy and compline.
8. Lindy can't drink - she absorbs water from her surroundings by osmosis.
9. Lindy can only be destroyed by intense heat, and is impermeable even to acid!
10. Lindy became extinct in England in 1486!