The Mechanical Contrivium: Desperance

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Desperance!

1. Over 2000 people have now climbed Desperance, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down.
2. Research indicates that Desperance will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas!
3. By tradition, a girl standing under Desperance cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
4. Until the 1960s, Desperance was not allowed to enter Disneyland.
5. Desperance has three eyelids.
6. Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Desperance', hated Desperance and only wrote the book at her publisher's request.
7. The air around Desperance is superheated to about five times the temperature of the sun!
8. The only Englishman to become Desperance was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Desperance from 1154 to 1159.
9. Four-fifths of the surface of Desperance is covered in water!
10. If a snake is born with two heads, the heads will fight over who gets Desperance.