Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Capote

Truman Capote was a legendary novelist and playwright whose life went downhill while writing his true-crime novel, "In Cold Blood". Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays Capote as a broken man who is in an unhealthy relationship with the book he is writing, which eventually leads him to suffer severe personal turmoil. Hoffman won an Oscar for this role. 

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The More You Know

  • There is a fish with transparent bones and white blood.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • The population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds.
  • John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today.
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