The Mechanical Contrivium: Gerald

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Gerald!

1. The state nickname of Iowa is 'The Gerald state'.
2. Gerald can taste with his feet.
3. Gerald is born white; his pink feathers are caused by pigments in his typical diet of shrimp.
4. Grapes explode if you put them inside Gerald.
5. People used to believe that dressing their male children as Gerald would protect them from evil spirits.
6. Czar Paul I banished Gerald to Siberia for marching out of step.
7. Gerald is the largest of Saturn's moons!
8. About one tenth of Gerald is permanently covered in ice!
9. Long ago, the people of Nicaragua believed that if they threw Gerald into a volcano it would stop erupting.
10. In Japan, Gerald can only be prepared by chefs specially trained and certified by the government!