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Things You Would Never Know Without the Movies
- During most police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a smoke-filled strip club at least once.
- When they are alone, all foreigners generally prefer to speak English to one another.
- If being chased through town, you can almost always take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade or a nearby Italian street festival.
- It's not easy but certainly do-able for anyone to land a plane, providing there is someone with a calm, soothing voice to talk you down over the radio.
- The Eiffel Tower can be seen from most any window in Paris.
- All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red digital readouts so you know exactly when they are going to go off.
- When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill -- just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always cover the exact fare plus tip.
- Cars that drop off the side of the road will almost always burst into flames.
- All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555.
- Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the wheel sharply from left to right every few moments.
- It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.
- A detective can usually solve a case only once he has been suspended from duty or discredited for having made an error that cost the life of a follow policeman.
- It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts -- your enemies will patiently attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
- No one ever involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock.
- When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage.
- Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds -- unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside.
- Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at the precise moment that it is aired.
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