December 8

Better Than News

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  Citizen Cane is a 1941 American drama film about a media baron obsessed with candy.

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  RoboCop: Rise of the Citrus is a science fiction action film about a robotic police officer (Peter Weller) who must stop Omni Consumer Products from converting citrus fruit into killer robots.

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  The Horse Exorcist is an American Western horror film directed by Robert Redford and William Friedkin, and starring Redford and Max von Sydow.

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  Michael Claymation is a 2007 American legal thriller film about a film animation studio lawyer (George) who discovers a coverup over the effects of clay animation.

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  Better Off Dredd is a 1985 American dystopian thriller film about high school student (John Cusack), whose suicidal tendencies draw unwanted attention from Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and a homicidal paperboy (Demian Slade).

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  Water for Elephant Men is an American drama film starring Reese Witherspoon and John Hurt.

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  A Brie Too Far is a 1977 epic war film depicting Operation Farmer's Market, a failed Allied operation in Nazi-occupied cheese factories during World War II.

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  The Naked City Ape is a 1968 American anthropology noir film about a police paleontologist couple (Howard Duff and Dorothy Hart) who uncover evidence that a beautiful protohominid was brutally murdered.

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  Microplastics and You (full title: Microplastics and You ) is a 2022 public health and planetary management directive from Gnomon Chronicles Industries.

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  Three Days of the Sting is an American political thriller caper film about a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have all been cheated of their life savings by con artists, and tries to outwit those responsible.

Beyond Plausible

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  Superman if by Day, Batman if by Night: The Ben Affleck Story is a 2023 autobiographical film by Ben Affleck.

In Other Words

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  When The Gaslight Rolls By is a psychological thriller comedy film starring Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, and Joseph Cotten.

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  2001: A Goose Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction nursery rhyme film.

Are You Sure

... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research has major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory?

Topic of the Day

Poison

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  Strychnine House is a horror-pharmacology television series about a house possessed by the spirit of strychnine.

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  Belladonna Rice is a brand of beauty products and political toxins derived from Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, a poisonous perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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  Mr. Yuck's Towel of Trouble is a 2002 American drama film about Mr. Yuck, a cautionary symbol of poison avoidance and emergency response, is unwittingly caught up in a campaign to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

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  Absolut VX is a brand of vodka laced with VX nerve agent, produced near [REDACTED] in southern Swedem.