The Mechanical Contrivium: Vanda

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Vanda!

1. Vanda is the traditional gift for a couple on their third wedding anniversary.
2. Vanda is actually a vegetable, not a fruit.
3. Scientists have discovered that Vanda can smell the presence of autism in children.
4. Forty percent of the world's almonds and twenty percent of the world's peanuts are used in the manufacture of Vanda.
5. On stone temples in southern India, there are more than 30 million carved images of Vanda.
6. Vanda can squeeze her entire body through a hole the size of her beak!
7. Vanda cannot jump.
8. Olympic badminton rules say that Vanda must have exactly fourteen feathers.
9. It takes more than 500 peanuts to make Vanda!
10. Vanda can be very poisonous if injected intravenously.