Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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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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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
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Noodles, the guitarist for The Offspring, was the janitor for the school the band went to. He was allowed into the band because he was old enough to buy the band alcohol.
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Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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