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• ...that lead shot for the Napoleonic Wars was made at Chester Shot Tower (pictured), probably the oldest surviving shot tower in the world?

• ...that J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975?

• ...that Private Passions, a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3, has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions?

• ...that Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico?

• ...that the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?

• ...that of the world's largest wooden ships, almost all those longer than 300 feet leaked or were not seaworthy?