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Things I Have Learned Playing Fallout 3

1. Teddy bears can be used as ammo for rocket launchers.
2. It doesn't rain in Washington, D.C.
3. In D.C. you can magically travel from place to place.
4. In the post-apocalyptic U.S., robots are British and tell jokes.
5. Large-brimmed hats are so inconspicuous that they actually make it harder for people to see you when wearing one.
6. A human being can survive an atom bomb by being more than 30 yards away.
7. When you headshoot a Mole Rate, if you're elevated, there is a good chance its head will roll down hill for a good 5 or so minutes before coming to a stop.
8. Bullets actually take the shooter into account and decide if they'll go straight.
9. If you're in "Bullet Time (VATS)", headshots are way better than the right leg.
10. One bullet can cause the entire body to explode
11. One teddy bear can cause the entire body to explode.
12. Stabbing some one with a knife will also cause an explosion.
13. When a person runs from death, they actually only run ten feet away and crawl into a fetal position, thinking you can't see them.
14. Every single thing is a shade of brown, green or grey. No exceptions.
15. It can take forever for your parents to tell if your a boy or girl.
    
16. Land mines can tell who laid them down, and don't activate for them.
17. Sniper Rifles have bad accuracy for far away targets in V.A.T.S.
18. You can jump when you are a baby.
19. You have telekinesis.
20. Humans can survive a shotgun blast at point blank range.
21. People will never say your name.
    
22. Children are unkillable.
23. After nuclear holocaust, the Sun grows to an extreme size, yet the Earth doesn't get any hotter.
24. Whores won't even consider a Ghoul. 
25.  Never, ever hit Gob...
26. In the Captial Wasteland, there is but one fashion style: ridiculous.
27. Whores take the phrase 'sleeping together' quite literally.
28. Fire Ants should be taken quite literally, too.
29. You don't run faster with a knife, but you do when you wear 200-year-old pinstripe pants and a sweater vest.
30. Gas stations went out of business because none of the cars work.
    
31. Kids are jerks.
32. Playing sports as a child makes any land mine you lay as an adult more damaging
33. Comic books and magazines hold the secrets to true wisdom.
34. One dog is never enough and two is too few.
35. Standing knee-deep in a pit full of radiating water is completely harmless as long as you worship a giant bomb.
36. No matter if you are white, black, Asian, or Latino...Liam Neeson is still your daddy.
37. Actual printed money is worth less than bottle caps in the future.
38. Children in the Wastelands can maintain a fully running town on their own.
39. In the future, nobody can ever take all their clothes off.
40. Being in radioactive environments is hazardous.  However, consuming radioactive material is beneficial.