Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

The Big Short

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt tell the true story of Michael Short's book titled The Big Short. These four men discover that the stock market is going to crash in 2008 much earlier than the rest of the market, and somehow the filmmakers and actors managed to make the intricacies of stock predictions interesting. 

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The More You Know

  • A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • Sharks "smell in stereo."
  • Baby elephants suck their trunks for comfort.
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