The Mechanical Contrivium: Ruby

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Ruby!

  1. When provoked, ruby will swivel the tip of her abdomen and shoot a jet of boiling chemicals at her attacker!
  2. The pupil of an octopus's eye is shaped like ruby.
  3. If you kiss ruby for one minute you will burn six or seven calories.
  4. Reindeer like to eat ruby!
  5. A thimbleful of ruby would weigh over 100 million tons.
  6. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill ruby.
  7. New Zealand was the first place to allow ruby to vote!
  8. Medieval knights put the skin of ruby on their sword handles to improve the grip.
  9. You can tell if ruby has been hard-boiled by spinning her. If she stands up, she is hard-boiled!
  10. It's bad luck to put ruby on a bed!

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