re: Everyday stuff that always happens in movies and TV shows that is not realistic

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igniting gasoline with a lit cigarette is insanely difficult

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And I'd like to know how even that one-in-a-million event is possible.

I've put a lit cig directly into a cup of gasoline and it put it out like it was water.

(For those interested, it's the spark trying to light a cig that is dangerous as it will ignite the fumes/gas, not an already lit/simmering cig shown regularly in movie gas-fires/explosions.)