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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Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found.
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Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
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Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz.
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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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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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