Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
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Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for 'Ladies Love Cool James'.
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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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During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.
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Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz.
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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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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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