Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found.
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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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Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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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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In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
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Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
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When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity to a girl slightly older than him.
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