The Real Story: Live Free or Die Hard - The Cyber Crimes You Never Hear About
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Financial institutions go to great lengths to protect themselves against cyber attacks, but as in Live Free or Die Hard, very little stops these elite hackers
The Real Story: Scream - The Inspiration Behind Scream's Ghostface
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Scream's iconic villain Ghostface was inspired by a real serial killer who preyed on young students in the college town of Gainesville, Florida
The Real Story: Star Trek - Interacting with an Android
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Meet Bina48, she is an android capable of interacting with humans. Her creators note that Star Trek originally imagined a similar form of artificial intelligence, but now, that science fiction is becoming a reality.
The Real Story: Live Free or Die Hard - Surviving a Bullet Wound to the Shoulder
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In Live Free or Die Hard, John McClane shoots through his own shoulder in order to take out his captor - ballistics experts put this climactic scene to the test
The Real Story: Scream - Killers Don't Always Look the Part
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The tragic true story of an innocent man suspected of murder is a classic motif of the Hollywood thriller and is used as a subplot in Scream
The Real Story: Star Trek - Lifelong Trekkie Uses 3D Printer to Make Human Body Parts
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Many of the technologies first fictionalized in Star Trek are now a reality. Using x-rays, scans, and a mixture of cells, scientists can actually print human tissue and organs.
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Russell Crowe's character in Master and Commander was based on a real-life captain whose smarts and trickery surpassed the Hollywood version
The Real Story: The Da Vinci Code - Was Leonardo Da Vinci Dyslexic?
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Almost everything Da Vinci wrote in his journals is back-to-front and the letters inverted. Was Da Vinci's mirror writing a deliberate form of code or is it possible that he was dyslexic?
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Gruesome and painful surgery on board a 19th century warship was common. The medical historian who rehearsed actors from Master and Commander demonstrates the horrifying operations.
The Real Story: Platoon - Could You Survive Three M16 Bullets to the Chest?
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A weapons expert and a trauma surgeon recreate a scene from Platoon using high-speed cameras to show the damage caused by a single M16 bullet to the human body
The Real Story: The Da Vinci Code - A Message From Leonardo Da Vinci
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Da Vinci's The Last Supper plays a key role in the 2006 blockbuster hit The Da Vinci Code. Although the film's claims are more fiction than fact, could the painting actually contain a message from Leonardo?
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After a great victory and a great defeat, William Wallace was betrayed by his countrymen and sent to be tried, convicted, and gruesomely killed by England