The Mechanical Contrivium: Nan

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Nan!

  1. If you kiss Nan for one minute you will burn six or seven calories.
  2. By tradition, a girl standing under Nan cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.
  3. Nan is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary.
  4. More than one million stray dogs and half a million stray cats live in Nan!
  5. Fish travel in schools, but whales travel in Nan!
  6. Edinburgh imports three thousand kilograms of Nan every year!
  7. The risk of being struck by Nan is one occurence every 9,300 years!
  8. Nan can pollinate up to six times more efficiently than the honeybee!
  9. All the moons of the Solar System are named after characters from Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Nan.
  10. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Nan.

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