Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
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Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in 1875.
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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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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys fused into one)!
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When he was 7, Vin Diesel and some friends broke into a New York theater with intentions to vandalize it. Instead of calling the police, the theater’s artistic director handed them scripts and offered them parts in the upcoming show. This became Diesel’s first acting role.
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Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and thought that she “sounded like a goat”.
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Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson.
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