For all you movie-observers out there:

Courtesy of Robert Osborne, the primetime host and anchor of the Turner Classic Movies television network, here are 27 things we would never know without the movie industry:
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1. Large, loft-style apartments in New York are within the price range of most people, whether they are employed or not.
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2. At least one out of every pair of identical twins is born evil.
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3. Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut.
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4. During all police investigations, it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.
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5. If you are blonde and pretty, it's possible to become a world expert on nuclear fission at age 22.
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6. Radiation causes interesting mutations, not to your future children, but to you, right then and there.
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7. When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
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8. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
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9. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will soon be thrown through it.
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10. Most dogs are immortal.
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11. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments.
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12. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say "Enter password now".
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13. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty.
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14. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home.
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15. All grocery bags contain at least one loaf of French bread.
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16. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down.
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17. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do.
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18. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
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19. Honest and hardworking policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before retirement.
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20. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts; your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors.
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21. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate strange noises in their most revealing underwear.
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22. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone else on the street will know all the steps.
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23. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
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24. The White House can be seen from any window in D.C.
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25. Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their arch-enemies using complicated machinery involving fuses, pulley systems, deadly gasses, lasers, and man-eating sharks, which will allow their captives at least 20 minutes to escape.
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26. Police departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their opposite.
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27. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment.
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Thank you, movies, for teaching us these invaluable truths.
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