"Joker" Was Based On This True Story of an Unhinged Man

River's Rise

As the kids got more and more acting jobs, there was a clear frontrunner for the most successful member of the Phoenix family. River was collecting better and higher-paying jobs than any of his siblings. He was in Stand By Me (1986), Running On Empty (1988), and My Own Private Idaho (1991). Joaquin was an underdog, but maybe not for very long...

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The More You Know

  • The first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend 1847. She graduated in 1849, started her own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
  • There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.
  • John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.
  • A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.
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