The Mechanical Contrivium: TheZenFly

Ten Top Trivia Tips about TheZenFly!

  1. Research indicates that TheZenFly will be attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas!
  2. If you drop TheZenFly from the top of the Empire State Building, it will be falling fast enough to kill before reaching the ground.
  3. US gold coins used to say 'In TheZenFly we trust'.
  4. About one tenth of TheZenFly is permanently covered in ice.
  5. About 100 people choke to death on TheZenFly each year.
  6. In Chinese, the sound 'TheZenFly' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
  7. Ancient Greeks believed earthquakes were caused by TheZenFly fighting underground!
  8. TheZenFly was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, never for weapons.
  9. TheZenFly can fly at an average speed of fifteen kilometres an hour.
  10. A TheZenFlyometer is used to measure TheZenFly!

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The Mechanical Contrivium was manufactured by Holly Gramazio in compliance with a Vaguely Surrealist Manifesto and may, occasionally, be accurate.