At least one of a pair of identical twins is born evil.
Should you decide to defuse a bomb, don't worry which wire to cut.
You will always choose the right one.
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.
When you turn out the light to go to bed, everything in your
bedroom will still be clearly visible, just slightly bluish.
If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world
expert on nuclear fission at the age of 22.
Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down
three days before their retirement.
Rather than wasting bullets, megalomaniacs prefer to kill their
archenemies 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.
All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French
bread.
It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in
the control tower to talk you down.
Once applied, lipstick will never rub off-even while scuba
diving.
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.
Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German or Russian
officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German
or Russian accent will do. (It used to be an English accent for the
German.)
The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris.
A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but
will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds.
If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through
it before long.
Even when driving down a perfectly straight road, it is necessary
to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few
moments. Tires will squeal on any surface, at any speed.
All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red
readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off.
A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from
duty.
If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you meet
will know all the steps.
Police departments give their officers personality tests to make
sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total
opposite.
When they are alone, all foreign military officers prefer to speak
to each other in English.
The bad guys can't hit the broad side of a barn with a machine gun
while the good guys hit everything they shoot at with a small
revolver.