Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!
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Noodles, the guitarist for The Offspring, was the janitor for the school the band went to. He was allowed into the band because he was old enough to buy the band alcohol.
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Malcolm X's original name is Malcolm Little.
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As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
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Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.
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Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when he was only 15!
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Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything other than black ink.
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