Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

Monster

In 2003, Charlize Theron changed her entire appearance to play Aileen Wuornos, a serial killer from Florida. "Monster" followed Wuornos from before she began killing all the way until she got captured by the police. Theron won an Oscar for her performance.

The More You Know

All the Professors in Pokemon have been named after trees.
Pilots and their co-pilots are required to eat different meals before flights so that they don’t both end up with food poisoning.
Dr. Seuss wrote "Green Eggs and Ham" on a bet.
There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.