"Joker" Was Based On This True Story of an Unhinged Man

The Dark Knight

The influence of Gwynplaine fell by the wayside in the earlier versions but was seen again in The Dark Knight from 2008. Starring actor Heath Ledger as the Joker, fans adored the attention to detail in his character. In the movie, Ledger's Joker even remarks that his scars came from a childhood disfigurement, a reference to where he really got those scars...

The More You Know

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.
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Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world's freshwater.
A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.

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