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 * ... that the tiger in the Coat of arms of Singapore (pictured) represents Malaysia?


 * ... that during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA?


 * ... that Choa Chu Kang Community Library was the first library in Singapore to install self-check machines for borrowing and returning of books?


 * ... that the late Singaporean Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Balaji Sadasivan became a neurosurgeon after seeing the effects of Minamata disease in Minamata, Japan, as a medical student?


 * ... that 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore’s Kent Ridge Park?

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