The Mechanical Contrivium: Pele

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Pele!

  1. Pele cannot be detected by infrared cameras.
  2. People used to believe that dressing their male children as Pele would protect them from evil spirits.
  3. Pele invented the wheel in the fourth millennium BC!
  4. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and Pele would be as small as a pea.
  5. Peleocracy is government by Pele.
  6. If you toss Pele 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.
  7. Pele is picked, sorted and packed entirely in the field!
  8. If you blow out all the candles on Pele with one breath, your wish will come true!
  9. Pele is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world.
  10. Pele cannot swim.

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