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• ... that hors d'oeuvre trays (pictured) served on a table may be referred to as buffet-style, while those held and passed by servers are part of butler-style service or butlered hors d'oeuvres?
• ... that Stanisław Lem's character pilot Pirx defeats a perfect robot thanks to human imperfection?
• ... that the Soviet icebreaker Moskva once helped to free a herd of beluga whales trapped by pack ice?
• ... that Surinam-born Dutch author Astrid Roemer is the first Caribbean writer selected to receive the highest Dutch literary prize, the P. C. Hooft Award?
• ... that Dragon Age: Origins has 68,260 lines of dialogue, and its quality assurance testers enabled a cheat to automatically skip dialogues during test runs?
• ... that the musicologist David Fallows discovered that the biography of composer Johannes Ciconia was actually of Ciconia's father?
• ... that the fireworm Odontosyllis phosphorea lives unobtrusively on the seabed but rises to the surface and produces a sparkling display when it breeds?
• ... that at General Aung San's request, Myint Swe used to play the violin while Khin Kyi sang the hits of the day?