Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
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During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50 copies.
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James Bond is also known as Mr. Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
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Jimi Hendrix played a song dedicated to MLK the night of his assassination that is described as one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever played. Nobody at the entire concert recorded it.
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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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An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
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Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
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