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  • ... that a student magazine hypothesised what would happen if a large salmon statue (pictured) fought a trout statue in New Zealand?
  • ... that although the Indonesian Painters Association sought to develop a modern Indonesian art, its members had no shared style?
  • ... that while writer Edgar J. March served as a war reserve constable during World War II, he tussled with a burglar and chased him on a borrowed bicycle?
  • ... that a faulty premise can turn a whole argument into a fallacy?
  • ... that the musical adaptation of Black Swan rewrote the character of Thomas LeRoy as a woman to avoid writing a #MeToo story?
  • ... that Philadelphia's Salvation Army Memorial Temple was once an American burlesque theatre?
  • ... that A Story About Fire was animated by hand on 50,000 sheets of rice paper?
  • ... that the authors of Soonish had to remove a completed chapter from the book before publication?
  • ... that a large yellow bear taught 500 children how to wash their hands in Haffen Park?