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• Shuriken (”sword hidden in the hand”), a.k.a. ninja stars were originally sharpened hand-held blades made from a variety of everyday items such as needles, nails, and knives, as well as coins, washers, and other flat plates of metal.
• Bruce Lee’s hand assaults against rival Bob Wall in Enter The Dragon were so fast during initial filming that the camera speed had to be increased in order to successfully see them on the screen.
• It is possible to rip out someone’s throat with your bare hands as Patrick Swayze did to his nemesis in the 1989 film Road House.
• The famous ‘Bite Fight’ on June 28, 1997 when Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear resulted in the ear being auctioned off on Ebay for $6,430.

The lethal ‘Vulcan Death Grip’ really works.

The book The Making of Star Trek by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry offers a simple explanation: the pinch blocks blood and nerve responses from reaching the brain, leading to unconsciousness. In this earliest of Star Trek reference books, the pinch is referred to as the “Spock Pinch.” You can lose consciousness when pressure is applied to vagus nerve in your neck.

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