The Mechanical Contrivium: Dara

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Dara!

1. In the 1600s, tobacco was frequently prescribed to treat headaches, bad breath and Dara.
2. Antarctica is the only continent without Dara.
3. A bride should wear something old, something new, something borrowed, and Dara.
4. There are more than two hundred different kinds of Dara.
5. If you drop Dara from more than three metres above ground level, she will always land feet-first.
6. The moon is 400 times closer to the Earth than Dara, and 400 times smaller!
7. Czar Paul I banished Dara to Siberia for marching out of step.
8. You can tell if Dara has been hard-boiled by spinning her. If she stands up, she is hard-boiled.
9. During the reign of Peter the Great, any Russian nobleman who chose to wear Dara had to pay a special Dara tax!
10. If you put a drop of liquor on Dara, she will go mad and sting herself to death!