Mind-Blowing Films That Are Based on Real People

The Most Hated Woman in America

Melissa Leo plays Madelyn Murray O'Hair, a science forward atheist who launched a lawsuit in the 1960s that found its way all the way up to the Supreme Court. O'Hair's mission was to eliminate mandatory Christian prayer in schools, with the intention of making them illegal. The story takes a dark turn when every Christian group in America turns against her and she gets kidnapped by an ex-employee who holds her hostage for her money.

The More You Know

Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
Virginia is the only state that has the same state flower and state tree, the Dogwood.
Sharks "smell in stereo."
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.

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