When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.
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Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.
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The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry 'Toby' Elwes a Yorkshireman!
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Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's had the middle name of Stucklefuss!
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President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!
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Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10lbs of Marijuana during his 20th Birthday.
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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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X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, under the final portrait.
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