Useless Trivial facts

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    Caesium, an extremely reactive pale yellow metal, and Gold, an extremely inert bright yellow metal can be combined to form the compound Caesium Auride, formula AuCs. It is a yellow powder (naturally), but when melted at 480C, it becomes a clear and colorless liquid, made only of metals!
     
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    SilverPete's "post per day" average is going down !
     
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    Frank Sinatra the first person to be offered the role of John McClane in Die Hard even though he was 73 years old at the time. Richard Gere, Pacino, DeNiro and Nick Nolte all turned the role down before Willis accepted it. For a paltry $10m in today's money.

    Special, extra loud blanks were made for use in the film to add to the "hyper-realism" director John McTiernan was looking for. Unfortunately for Bruce Willis, some of these blanks were used for the scene where he kills a terrorist by shooting him through the bottom of a table where the terrorist is standing. The proximity of the gun to Willis' ear during this scene caused permanent hearing loss for Willis.

    Bruce Willis was born in West Germany to an American father and a German mother.
     
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    Bruce willis was offered $3 million for four days of work shooting in Bulgaria but said he would drop out if he didn't get $4 million.

    Sylvester Stallone let the world know Tuesday that Bruce Willis was out of the upcoming The Expendables 3 for being "greedy and lazy," and it seems that laziness was not the primary issue.

    Stallone raised eyebrows in Hollywood by tweeting "WILLIS OUT . . . HARRISON FORD IN!!!! GREAT NEWS!!!!! Been waiting years for this!!!!," then following up with a second tweet reading "GREEDY AND LAZY . . . A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE."

    Bruce willis thinks hes worth a million dollars a day, he is a huge gay fish.
     
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    Yippie-Ki-Yay MotherF**ker!


    Catchphrase used by Bruce Willis In all of the Die Hard films.It only has context In the first movie but he says It In all of them.

    The reason the phrase has context In the first one Is as follows:

    Main terrorist Hans:Mr. Mystery Guest are you still there?

    John Mcclane:Yeah I'm still here

    Hans:Who are you exactly?Someone who watched too many action movies as a child and thinks he's John Wayne,Rambo,Lewis Stevens?

    Mcclane:Actually I was kind of partial to Roy Rogers myself.Always liked those sequin shirts.

    Hans:Do you really think you can stop us Mr.Cowboy?

    Mcclane:Well,Yippie-Ki-Yay MotherF**ker!

    Do you really think you can stop us Mr.Cowboy?

    Well,Yippee ki-yay, motherf**ker!
     
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    Speaking of (in a six degrees sort of way).

    Acting is over, everyone can go home now. Gary Oldman wins all of acting.

    That moment when you realise that Zorg from The Fifth Element is George Smiley from Tinker Tailor.
     
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    No word in the English language rhymes with month ... unless you have a lisp .....
     
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    The Earth's surface curves at approximately 8 inches per mile.
     
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    The same could be said about silver :)

    Well, maybe not the lisp part
     
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    Totally useless trivia...

    How much money has been spent attempting to bring Matt Damon back from distant places?

    Courage Under Fire (Gulf War 1 helicopter rescue): $300k
    Saving Private Ryan (WW2 Europe search party): $100k
    Titan AE (Earth evacuation spaceship): $200B
    Syriana (Middle East private security return flight): $50k
    Green Zone (US Army transport from Middle East): $50k
    Elysium (Space station security deployment and damages): $100m
    Interstellar (Interstellar spaceship): $500B
    The Martian (Mars mission): $200B

    TOTAL: $900B plus change
     
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    how is evacuating earth bringing him back from a distant planet?
     
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    Useless ambiguous laws ... A robot may not injure .... but then again it may ...
     
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    reading from a mirror again
     
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    'Indescribable' is a word that ensures that everything can actually be described.
     
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    In Australia, a human life is valued by the Department of Finance at $150,000 per year.
     
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    The Ferris Wheel is named after George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
     

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