J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so much of her money to charity.
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Keith Richards heard the riff to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" in a dream. He woke up, played the riff on a tape recorder and mumbled "I can't get no satisfaction" and went back to sleep.
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Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
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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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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.
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