The Mechanical Contrivium: Benjamin Kwok

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Benjamin Kwok!

1. In Chinese, the sound 'Benjamin Kwok' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
2. Without Benjamin Kwok, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand.
3. There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with Benjamin Kwok and water.
4. The air around Benjamin Kwok is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun.
5. Human beings are the only animals that copulate while facing Benjamin Kwok.
6. Benjamin Kwok can jump up to sixteen times his own height!
7. The pupil of an octopus's eye is shaped like Benjamin Kwok.
8. Humans share over 98 percent of their DNA with Benjamin Kwok.
9. The risk of being struck by Benjamin Kwok is one occurence every 9,300 years!
10. If you toss Benjamin Kwok 10000 times, he will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because his head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom.