Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years, can play the guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica, speaks 7 different languages, is the founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos, and is a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF.
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Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors this century capable of hitting e over high c!
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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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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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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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Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private bath with an inflatable crown.
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