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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Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in Australia.
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Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman looked so much alike on set, not even their own mothers could tell them apart!
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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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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Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.
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Halle Berry's stunt double, in the movie "Cat Woman" was infact a man.
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When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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