The first foreigner to become a samurai was an African slave.
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Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a watchmaker, 240 years ago invented a robot that could write, and the parts could be interchanged to say whatever you want.
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Pope Francis was once a nightclub bouncer.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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