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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Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found.
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Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
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Andre the Giant had surgery, but the doctors couldn't figure out how much anaesthesia to use due to his size. Instead, they used Andre's claim that "it usually takes two liters of vodka just to make me feel warm inside" as their guide.
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Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
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Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.
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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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