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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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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One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
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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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Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!
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Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary school.
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Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
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Clint Eastwood was in a plane which crashed into the sea. He and the pilot escaped the sinking aircraft and swam 3 miles to safety.
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