"Salamanders are commonly associated with being summoned by fire in folklore. This is because they like to hide in decaying wood. And when people would burn the wood the salamander wouldn’t notice right away until it was fully engulfed in flames and then come out of the wood and crawl out from the coals."
#10 So do rats, bats, manatees, mice, tamarins, marmosets and several other primordial primates (which is what koalas are.)
#6 was canned food a prank before that?