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Charlie Day writes much of the music and lyrics for his musically “gifted” character, Charlie Kelly, himself.

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Heiress, writer, and activist Nancy Cunard battled anorexia throughout her life. When she died, she weighed only 57 pounds.

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Pablo Picasso carried around a gun filled with blanks to fire at boring people.

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Marilyn Monroe had an extremely high IQ of 168.

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Within five years of the release of The Misfits, its three stars had died: Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift.

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J.K. Rowling told Alan Rickman Snape's fate years before the final book came out. No one else on earth knew.

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Men rarely made Mamie Van Doren nervous, but she was once so affected by Clark Gable that she nearly fainted.

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When Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr fell in love, Novak's boss threatened to use his mob connections to tear the couple apart.

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Sigmund Freud was his own daughter's therapist.

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Justin Bieber has a tattoo of Banksy's "Girl with Balloon."

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Lucy Maud Montgomery was the first Canadian woman to become a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

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Merle Oberon was the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for an Oscar.

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Ringo was the first person to say "It's been a hard day's night."

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In 1631, a King James bible was published with a misprint that read "Thou shalt commit adultery."

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Early in his career, Vaslav Nijinsky was fired from the Imperial Ballet for wearing a revealing costume.

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Marie Antoinette loathed Madame du Barry so much that for years, she refused to speak to her for any reason.

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Caravaggio lost his father and three other family members to the bubonic plague when he was just six years old.

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Cher and Tom Cruise met at Madonna and Sean Penn's wedding. They were briefly an item in the 1980s.

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Lady Elizabeth Chudleigh was known for her beauty and wit, but also for loud flatulence at the dinner table.

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Hank Williams recorded 225 songs in a five-year span, 128 of which he wrote himself.

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Joan Rivers was one of four Americans invited to the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

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On Thanksgiving Day, the average person consumes 3,000 calories.

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Harvey Keitel convinced Robert De Niro to take a role in Mean Streets, setting De Niro on his path to stardom.

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Groucho Marx's gravestone has no epitaph, but he had an idea for one before he died: "Excuse me, I can't stand up."

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Lupe Velez stabbed Gary Cooper when they were together and tried to shoot him when he left her.

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Empress Elisabeth's only son died in a bizarre Romeo & Juliet-esque love pact known as the Mayerling Incident.

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Lady Emily Fitzgerald was pregnant for most of her adult life. She had 22 children.

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Qin Shi Huang's Terracotta Army had 520 horses, 130 chariots, and over 8,000 soldiers.

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