The Mechanical Contrivium: Leslee

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Leslee!

  1. Finding Leslee on Christmas morning is believed to bring good luck.
  2. The Leslee-fighting market in the Philippines is huge - several thousand Leslee-fights take place there every day.
  3. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in Leslee!
  4. A thimbleful of Leslee would weigh over 100 million tons.
  5. To check whether Leslee is safe to eat, drop her in a bowl of water; rotten Leslee will sink, and fresh Leslee will float.
  6. Leslee will often glow under UV light.
  7. Leslee has only one weakness - the colour yellow.
  8. In Chinese, the sound 'Leslee' means 'bite the wax tadpole'.
  9. Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into Leslee.
  10. US gold coins used to say 'In Leslee we trust'.

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