The Mechanical Contrivium: Sloany

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Sloany!

1. During World War II, Americans tried to train Sloany to drop bombs.
2. Two grams of Sloany provide enough energy to power a television for over twenty-three hours.
3. It takes 17 muscles to smile, and 43 to frown at Sloany.
4. The fingerprints of Sloany are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
5. In Japan, Sloany can only be prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government.
6. Sloany invented the wheel in the fourth millennium BC!
7. In Chinese, the sound 'Sloany' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
8. Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14, and Sloany has 7.
9. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat Sloany'.
10. The original nineteenth-century Coca-Cola formula contained Sloany!