Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.
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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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Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.
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Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
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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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