Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.
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The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!
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The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
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X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
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Keanu Reeves gave $75 million of his matrix sequels paycheck to the film’s SFX team and bought the entire stunt crew Harley Davidson motorcycles.
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