Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school.
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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
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In 2007, Joshua Bell pretended to be a street violinist and went mostly ignored. Just two days earlier, he played in a sold out theater with each seat costing $100. The violin he used on the street was worth 3.5 million dollars.
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The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
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Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years, can play the guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica, speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos, and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
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An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
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Keanu Reeves has a private cancer foundation to help children’s hospitals and cancer research, but he does not attach his name to it. He also has spent over 5 million dollars to help his sister in her fight against leukemia.
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