Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

All the President's Men

Two reporters, played by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, accidentally uncover the connection between a White House staff member and the 1972 attempted burglary of the DPH at the Watergate hotel. These two reporters, named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, were the sole reason why Richard Nixon was forced to resign once they got their story straight.

The More You Know

Saint Patrick's Day began as a "feast day". To honor him, Christians could put aside their Lenten restrictions on food and alcohol consumption, which is why excessive drinking has become linked to the celebration.
The loudest animal on earth is the sperm whale.
In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.
A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.

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