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== Multiple Media ==
* Know how in movies, television, and well, media in general, the snooping damsel is caught by the bad guys, who cover her mouth with a rag soaked with chloroform, an action that instantly sedates her? This is something fiction ''always'' takes wrong, as it would take about five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render an average person unconscious. Most [[Real Life]] crimes where chloroform is involved also involve a second drug being used by the perpetrator, such as alcohol or diazepam, or the victim being found to have been complicit in its use.
* Anther frequent offender are gemstones, specifically those that have recently been unearthed. Watch ''[[Snow White and
** Precious metals like gold and silver aren't very pretty either, barely recognizable until they are smelted in order to remove impurities; fiction tends to skip this step, gold nuggets and ore looking like post-smelted gold when a prospector first discovers it.
** Pearls too. Most pearls that are found in oysters aren't even nice enough to make paste jewelry, and those that ''are'' need to be polished before they look like decent pearls. In fiction, however, they tend to be nice and shiny when taken straight from the oyster.
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