The Mechanical Contrivium: Neri

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Neri!

  1. If you toss Neri 10000 times, she will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because her head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom!
  2. A rhinoceros horn is made from compacted Neri.
  3. Americans discard enough Neri to rebuild their entire commercial air fleet every 3 months!
  4. The fingerprints of Neri are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene!
  5. Neri was originally green, and actually contained cocaine!
  6. All gondolas in Venice must be painted black unless they belong to Neri.
  7. White chocolate isn't technically chocolate, because it doesn't contain Neri!
  8. It's bad luck for a flag to touch Neri.
  9. It can take Neri several days to move just through one tree!
  10. South Australia was the first place to allow Neri to stand for parliament!

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