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What is the opposite of Christopher Reeve?

by cringeyjokesman August 1, 2022, 5:23 am

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TIL The Dark Knight trilogy director Christopher Nolan based his characterization of Bruce Wayne on Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. To Nolan, both characters overcame great personal loss and a traumatic childhood by reinventing themselves and personally taking on crime.

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 4:17 am

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TIL Christopher Nolan was physically assaulted in public by David O. Russell, who put him in a chokehold, over a dispute regarding Jude Law’s availability.

by whatilearned July 7, 2022, 8:43 am

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TIL Actor Christopher Lee, who famously portrayed Saruman, was also featured on the cover of Paul McCartney and Wings 1973 album “Band on the Run”

by whatilearned July 1, 2022, 4:58 am

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TIL that Christopher Columbus’s signature is written in a combinaison of Greek and Latin script, whose exact meaning has not been decyphered yet. People have used the signature to “prove” that he was Greek, Portuguese, Jewish…

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 4:30 pm

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TIL America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.

by whatilearned June 30, 2022, 6:31 am

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TIL Christopher Lee Rios, better known as rapper Big Pun, weighed nearly 700 lbs when he died at the age of 28

by whatilearned June 4, 2022, 12:38 am

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TIL the line “It is not heresy, and I will not recant!”, sampled in the song “Super-Charger Heaven” by band White Zombie, was delivered by Sir Christopher Lee in character as Father Michael Rayner from the 1976 film “To The Devil a Daughter”.

by whatilearned June 2, 2022, 3:01 am

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TIL about the Bloop, an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound detected in 1997. NOAA’s Christopher Fox’s hunch was that the sound is likely to come from some sort of animal, because its signature is a rapid variation in frequency similar to sounds known to be made by marine beasts.

by whatilearned May 31, 2022, 3:44 pm

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TIL that the James Bond Movies “The Spy Who Loved Me” and “Moonraker” strayed so far from Ian Fleming’s novels that Eon Productions authorized the screenwriter for both, Christopher Wood, to write novelizations based upon the films, rather than promote the original novels.

by whatilearned May 27, 2022, 6:06 pm

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TIL that director Christopher Nolan’s brother Matthew was alleged to be a contract killer who kidnapped and tortured an accountant to death in Costa Rica. While being held in a secure prison tower in Chicago, Matthew concocted an elaborate escape attempt using a razor, a harness, and a 31-foot rope.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 8:56 pm

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TIL that Christopher Columbus’s return was almost covered up. After rediscovering the Americas he first ended up in Lisbon. He was apparently so condescending to the Portuguese – who had NOT supported his trip – that the King’s advisers recommended discreetly killing him & so bury the news.

by whatilearned May 8, 2022, 12:33 am

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