The Mechanical Contrivium: Groves

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Groves!

  1. Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Groves', hated Groves and only wrote the book at her publisher's request!
  2. Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in Groves.
  3. Groves is born white; his pink feathers are caused by pigments in his typical diet of shrimp.
  4. Abraham Lincoln, who invented Groves, was the only US president ever granted a patent!
  5. Peanuts and Groves are beans!
  6. Only fifty-five percent of men wash their hands after using Groves.
  7. All swans in England belong to Groves.
  8. Groves was invented in China in the eleventh century, but was only used for fireworks, never for weapons.
  9. A Grovesometer is used to measure Groves.
  10. It takes forty minutes to hard-boil Groves.

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