Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich was a law clerk who became an environmental activist when she found out that a billion-dollar corporation was polluting the groundwater in Hinkley, California. Julia Roberts represents her in the film adaptation, which chronicles her brave and dangerous conquest to take on corporate greed. Roberts was awarded an Oscar for her performance. 

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The More You Know

  • Pittsburgh is the only city where all three major sports teams share the same colors.
  • Mark Zuckerberg said a voting mechanism that says whether posts are good or bad is 'not something that we think is good for the world'.
  • Following the release of Rocky IV, a joke was making rounds in Hollywood. Since Rocky had run out of opponents, he would have to fight an alien if a fifth movie was made. Jim and John Thomas took the joke seriously and wrote a screenplay based on it, which later became the movie "Predator".
  • A typical cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.
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