Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Seabiscuit

In 2003, a biopic about a wealthy racehorse owner who hires a boxer-turned-jockey (played by Toby Maguire) to ride his weak horse to victory in the Santa Anita Handicap of 1940. This movie is a tale about Depression-era America and how the lifestyle of the American elite clashed with that of the lower class.

The More You Know

Saturn is the only planet in our solar system that could float in water.
War pigs were used in ancient warfare to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.
The patient in the game Operation has a name.
Fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.

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