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A top and a ball (both with human facial features) lay among other toys in an illustration by Vilhelm Pedersen, Andersen's first illustrator.


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Arthur C. Clarke in 2005


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Hans Christian Andersen


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Owl Island from The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin

  • ... that Owl Island (pictured) in
    Derwent Water
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Annette Nelson as 'The Mountain Sylph'


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Portrait of ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre


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Nancy Cartwright


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Marie Taglioni

  • ... that
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Thrill the World 2008 in Austin, Texas


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The Death of Procris


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Sir Galahad


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Engraving showing a silhouetted being thrown from battlements


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a blue monster without a head and with a big face on his chest. Two men holding swords seated on his two arms

  • ... that the demon Kabandha (pictured), from the Hindu epic Ramayana, is described to be as big as a mountain, headless, and with arms eight miles long?

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Biographies

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  • ... that
    The War of the Worlds
    ?

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  • ... that
    young-adult fiction
    ?

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  • ... that before beginning a career in animation, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh worked as a vice president of sales and marketing for a computer company, where he "freaked out" and decided to quit?

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Books (including comic books)

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  • ... that "
    Pit and the Pendulum
    "?

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  • ... that David Colbert was given permission to publish the book
    J.K. Rowling
    ?

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Film and television

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  • ... that
    Over the Rainbow
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  • ... that in 1988,
    accept a Golden Raspberry Award, for his work on the film Leonard Part 6
    ?

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  • ... that
    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
    ?

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  • ... that the 2009
    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
    ?

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  • ... that the
    Store Wars
    " was released on DVD with an audio commentary in which the characters discuss events not seen in the episode?

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Games

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  • ... that the
    the music of the series
    ?

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  • ... that the video game
    Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, but from the perspective of Obi-Wan Kenobi
    ?

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  • ... that while recording
    video game's designer Steve Brown nearly took his eye out with the Web of Death, a move copied from the film Conan the Destroyer
    ?

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  • ... that the
    censorship in the People's Republic of China
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  • ... that the
    Dalmatian
    dogs for several scenes?

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  • ... the Halloween genes include spook, spookier, phantom, disembodied, shadow and shade?

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  • ... that the first Canadian musical staged at the
    Stratford Shakespeare Festival really sucked
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