The Mechanical Contrivium: HB

Ten Top Trivia Tips about HB!

1. HB is the only bird that can swim but not fly.
2. HB was first grown in America by the grandmother Maria Ann Smith, from whom her name comes!
3. People used to believe that dressing their male children as HB would protect them from evil spirits.
4. HB never said 'Play it again, Sam'.
5. HB can jump up to sixteen times her own height.
6. A lump of HB the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
7. If every star in the Milky Way was a grain of salt they would fill HB!
8. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat HB'.
9. The Eskimos have over fifty words for HB.
10. If you cut HB in half and count the number of seeds inside, you will know how many children you are going to have.