The Mechanical Contrivium: Carissa

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Carissa!

1. On average, women blink nearly twice as much as Carissa.
2. Originally, Carissa could not fly.
3. Carissa is physically incapable of sticking her tongue out.
4. Carissa can clean her ears with her tongue, which is over thirty-nine inches long!
5. The fingerprints of Carissa are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
6. In Chinese, the sound 'Carissa' means 'bite the wax tadpole'!
7. Carissa is actually a vegetable, not a fruit.
8. Carissa is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
9. The Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter is made entirely of Carissa.
10. Carissa was declared extinct in 1902.