Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Julie and Julia

Amy Adams and Meryl Streep star in this film adaptation of the real-life phenomenon that came from Julie Powell's daily blog, where she documented her methods to recreate every recipe in Julia Child's "Mastering The Art of French Cooking" cookbook. There are 524 recipes, by the way. This was a tall task at the time, and nobody has attempted it since. 

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The More You Know

  • More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
  • In 1993, San Francisco held a referendum over whether a police officer called Bob Geary was allowed to patrol while carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty. He was.
  • The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
  • Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.
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