The Mechanical Contrivium

The Mechanical Contrivium; from The Surrealist.   It is (as they say on their site),

"The Mechanical Contrivium is the automatic trivia generator of a thousand uses, providing facts for every occasion from school assignments to after-dinner conversation."

Start with this box . . .  I of course, entered "Trotsky" to discover amazing Trotsky trivia.

Wowzers!  I was not dissapointed!
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