The Top-Rated Superhero Movies of All Time

The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan concludes his Batman epic with The Dark Knight Rises in 2012. If features Christian Bale as the caped crusader, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, and Tom Hardy as Bane. It's incredibly suspenseful, laden with action sequences, and even gives viewers an Easter egg about Robin, which is John Blake's real name.

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The More You Know

  • A blue whale's tongue weighs as much as an elephant.
  • Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
  • 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 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.
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