Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

The Big Short

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt tell the true story of Michael Short's book titled The Big Short. These four men discover that the stock market is going to crash in 2008 much earlier than the rest of the market, and somehow the filmmakers and actors managed to make the intricacies of stock predictions interesting.

The More You Know

A solar powered, self-filling water bottle has been invented for bike riders that condenses atmospheric moisture to automatically fill the bottle.
A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
The first roller coaster was invented to stop sinful behavior.
In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard running away from a fire.

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