The Mechanical Contrivium: Nur

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Nur!

  1. Over 2000 people have now climbed Nur, with roughly ten percent dying on the way down!
  2. The water in oceans is four times less salty than the water in Nur.
  3. The only Englishman to become Nur was Nicholas Breakspear, who was Nur from 1154 to 1159!
  4. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have Nur for the rest of the day.
  5. Plato believed that the souls of melancholy people would be reincarnated into Nur.
  6. Owls cannot move their eyes, because their eyeballs are shaped like Nur.
  7. The fingerprints of Nur are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
  8. Nuricide is the killing of Nur!
  9. The first Nur was made in 1853, and had no pedals!
  10. Nur was the first Tsar of Russia.

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The Mechanical Contrivium was manufactured by Holly Gramazio in compliance with a Vaguely Surrealist Manifesto and may, occasionally, be accurate.