Jessica Graham

Below you'll find the best A Tale of Two Cities fun facts we uncovered: why Dickens wrote it, the 200 million copies myth, and 12 things you didn't know about the book.: why Dickens wrote it, the 200 million copies myth, and 12 fun facts about the book.

Is Heartburn based on a true story? Almost entirely. Nora Ephron turned her real divorce from Carl Bernstein into this sharp, funny novel, and we get into what she changed, and what she didn't.

Is The Da Vinci Code based on a true story? We fact-checked Dan Brown's biggest claims — the real CIA sculpture hidden on the book's cover, the actual sealed vaults under Rosslyn Chapel, and the lawsuit that named a villain after the authors who sued him.