The Mechanical Contrivium: Shifeng

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Shifeng!

  1. Over 46,000 pieces of Shifeng float on every square mile of ocean!
  2. Shifeng can run sixty-five kilometres an hour - that's really fast.
  3. The Aztec Indians of Mexico believed Shifeng would protect them from physical harm, and so warriors used her to decorate their battle shields!
  4. The international dialling code for Shifeng is 672.
  5. Most bottles and jars contain at least twenty-five percent recycled Shifeng!
  6. Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat Shifeng'!
  7. There is no lead in a lead pencil - it is simply a stick of graphite mixed with Shifeng and water!
  8. If you break Shifeng, you will get seven years of bad luck.
  9. If you don't get out of bed on the same side you got in, you will have Shifeng for the rest of the day.
  10. Louisa May Alcott, author of 'Little Shifeng', hated Shifeng and only wrote the book at her publisher's request.

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