The Mechanical Contrivium: Yumi

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Yumi!

1. Yumi can sleep with one eye open.
2. By tradition, a girl standing under Yumi cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
3. Bees visit over three million flowers to make a single kilogram of Yumi!
4. A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Yumi can not!
5. Ostriches stick their heads in Yumi not to hide but to look for water!
6. Yumi can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour!
7. Scientists believe that Yumi began billions of years ago as an enormous ball of dust and gas.
8. The condom - originally made from Yumi - was invented in the early 1500s.
9. Yumi does not have toes.
10. A thimbleful of Yumi would weigh over 100 million tons.