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**Wrong. On so many levels. For one thing, the villain only released one black mamba, and there is only one black mamba in the entire scene. And two, black mambas are not hyperaggressive or \
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**Wrong. On so many levels. For one thing, the villain only released one black mamba, and there is only one black mamba in the entire scene. And two, black mambas are not hyperaggressive or \\\"freaking psychotic\\\". It takes a lot of energy, particularly for an ectothermic animal, to generate venom, and no snake is stupid enough to waste large amounts of it on victims that are too large for the animal to eat. The mamba was pissed off when the briefcase (not sack) was opened, which is why it attacked Budd. But then it immediately slithered away to a hiding place, just as a wild snake would do.

Haven\\\'t seen the film, so I can\\\'t comment. But either it\\\'s a legitimate example and doesn\\\'t need corrections, or it isn\\\'t and shouldn\\\'t be in the article.

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*Any superstitious idiot who presumes that rhino horn would make a potent aphrodesiac doesn\\\'t know jack squat about rhinos. We\\\'re talking \\\'\\\'maybe\\\'\\\' once in three or four years, tops, because that\\\'s how long it takes a female to birth and raise a baby before she\\\'s ready to mate again.
**You Fail Culture Forever. They don\\\'t take rhino horn because they think rhinos have sex all the time: they know that\\\'s not the case. They take it because they\\\'re desperate and scared they\\\'ll be impotent forever, and they\\\'ll try anything. (The shape of the horn is another reason.) Fear is a great motivator.
**Rhino horns weren\\\'t ever believed to be an aphrodisiac in traditional Chinese medicine. They were/are instead used for reducing fevers and convulsions.
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