The Mechanical Contrivium: Tonks

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Tonks!

1. You would have to dig through four thousand kilometres of Tonks to reach the earth's core!
2. Two grams of Tonks provide enough energy to power a television for over twenty-three hours.
3. Tonks is actually a vegetable, not a fruit.
4. The fingerprints of Tonks are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
5. Tonks is often used in place of milk in food photography, because milk goes soggy more quickly than Tonks.
6. You share your birthday with Tonks.
7. Tonks was named after Tonks the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
8. Tonks can't drink - she absorbs water from her surroundings by osmosis.
9. Only fifty-five percent of men wash their hands after using Tonks.
10. Without Tonks, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand!