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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Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".
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Queen are the only group in which every member has composed more than one #1 single, and hence, all four members were induced into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003.
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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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Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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Al Capone died in prison from syphillis - despite being the first sufferer to be treated with antibiotics!
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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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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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