| 1 | * GeniusBonus: |
| 2 | ** There ''is'' a case of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner_Museum#Art_theft_of_1990 a museum]] leaving the empty frames of stolen artwork on display. |
| 3 | ** During the magically-accelerated coach ride, Vimes notices that the landscape appears slightly bluish when he looks ahead, and slightly reddish when he looks behind: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect Blueshift and redshift]][[note]]light on the disc moves at about the speed of sound[[/note]]. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: In the book, one of the paintings is stolen, leaving just the frame and a blank section of wall; Nobby suggests a rename to "Art Theft". [[https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1200192209/danish-artist-jens-haaning-blank-canvases-ordered-to-repay-loan-kunsten In 2021]] a Danish artist was commissioned to recreate two of his other paintings, which consisted of actually-real-money on a canvas; he turns in blank canvases, which end up being displayed by the museum. And at some point during the process, he gives his project the title... "Take the Money and Run". (He was eventually ordered to refund the money intended for use in the piece, though he was allowed to keep his artists' fee for creating the piece.) |
| 5 | * InformedWrongness: Tawneee (real name, Betty) dating Nobby Nobbs. When Angua, Sally and Cheeri find out that she is an absolute bombshell, they take it upon themselves to find out exactly why she is subjecting herself to ''Nobby Nobbs'', and it turns out she has some self-confidence issues due to being SoBeautifulItsACurse... upon which they take it upon themselves to try and "fix" the situation, implicitly so she will break up with Nobby. But the fact remains that, from what Tawneee says about their relationship, he's a perfect gentle... man? to her and she actually ''likes him'', yet Nobby scoring someone so beautiful is apparently against the order of things and must be rectified. Nobby actually breaks up with ''her'', though, because her cooking is awful and he doesn't mind just being her friend. |
| 6 | * ItWasHisSled: If you can somehow manage to hear anything about this book without seeing the phrase [[spoiler:'''"THAT! IS!! NOT!!! MY!!!! COW!!!!!"''']], you are very lucky. |
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