The Wildest Myths Viewers Have Been Led to Believe by Movies & Media

Myth #24 – Dropping a Penny From the Empire State Building is Deadly

Terminal velocity of a penny is 30-50 mph, which isn’t fast enough to kill a person. It would definitely hurt, though.

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The More You Know

  • The cigarette smoked by Sigourney Weaver in Avatar is completely CGI.
  • It took only 8 days to film "The Blair Witch Project".
  • The bridge blown up by Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was prematurely detonated by a Spanish Army Captain. Upon learning of his mistake the Captain ordered his troops to rebuild the bridge, only for it to suffer another explosion once complete.
  • During the filming of The Grinch, Jim Carrey sought counseling from a Navy SEAL to learn torture-resistance techniques in order to handle the extensive makeup.
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