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[Alan Bates]

The white cat in Godfather was not in the book or in the script. It was just a stray cat that Brando found and befriended.

[LuppyLuptonium]

I learned some weird things growing up, like did you know that every person who ever cut my father off while driving was born to an unwed mother? That's downright spooky.

[Grandmaster Jogurt]

Fun Fact: The increase in road travel instead of air travel caused by the current anti-terrorism security scare culture causes 1200 deaths per year.

wait is this fun or terrible

[Spriteless Girl]

Fun fact: People prefer driving to flying because people know what to do should their car go wrong, but can't do anything should the plane go wrong.

[Knight]

I'd like to see a survey on that to back up the statement. I always figured it was because plane crashes always get so heavily publicized.

Edit: Though a sense of being "in control" when driving is probably a large part of it as well.

[Grandmaster Jogurt]

This is from an examination in the change in travel habits between pre- and post-9/11 times, so it's nothing to do with standard fear of flying, just fear of terrorism, dislike of security procedures, and increased time and inconvenience.