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WTF: Weekly Trivia File

• 'Soldiers and comedians both know that a minute's silence means something went wrong.' Will Mars from his show Schtick Shift, 4.30pm, Cabaret Voltaire.

• Weatherman Michael Fish is coming to the Fringe today, to see the show created in his honour. Hurricane Michael tells the story of the great storm of 1987, which the TV meteorologist failed to predict – although the Assembly George Square show chooses to imagine that he foresaw it coming but chose not to say anything…

• A Fringe venue is a Relatively Normal place for the Oxford Imps to perform, since thy have previously improvised rap for Chinese government officials, the UK's ambassador to Israel, a nudist colony, and at an altitude of 3,000m in a ski lift.

• Jay Handley has an innovative response to spotting a spelling mistake on his Fringe flyer… he's launched a change.org petition to have the Oxford English Dictionary change the spelling of 'religion' to 'relgion'. Seeking 100 signatures, he wrote: 'For too long people across the country have been spelling "religion" in a manner that is unacceptable to people who have ordered 5000 flyers for their Edinburgh Fringe show with it spelled 'relgion' in the main copy of their blurb. These people have suffered long enough.'

• In what has to be one of the most ambitious shows on the Fringe, Nick Mohammed is escaping from a water tank each day as his usually hapless alter-ego Mr Swallow tells the story of Houdini. It's certainly a test for the insurers, who, Chortle hears, are not only indemnifying the show against the risk of Mohammed drowning, but also against the rather less dramatic eventuality of him contracting E. coli from the water in the tank...

Romanians comedy poster
•The team behind the Romanians Are Coming Fringe show have put together their idea of what Edinburgh posters are really saying here.

Tweets of the week

.@TwopTwips Travel agents: avoid awkward silences by asking customers if they're having their hair cut this year.
— Andrew Smith (@SmAnders32) August 3, 2016