Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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Jimi Hendrix played a song dedicated to MLK the night of his assassination that is described as one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever played. Nobody at the entire concert recorded it.
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Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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Jimi Hendrix played for Englebert Humperdinck when his regular guitarist failed to show, Hendrix had to play behind a curtain and Humperdinck says it was like having 3 guitarists behind him.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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Michael Jackson used a special shoe to perform his "Smooth Criminal" lean trick.
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In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
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