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  • ... that tacklers "bounced off" Chauncey Archiquette "as if he were a brick wall"?
  • ... that the author of the comic book Timeless Voyage was the leader of a UFO religion?
  • ... that Chief Constable James Smart flooded police courts with over 17,000 cases to prove the impracticality of leaving homeowners with the responsibility for lighting stairs?
  • ... that an Indiana university recently argued in court that The Silver Veil and the Golden Gate, a 1914 painting, was too modern for their art collection?
  • ... that Piri Reis did not map Antarctica in the sixteenth century?