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10 Facts about Shakira

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10 Facts about  Shakira : 1. Her full name is Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll. 2. She's fluent in Portuguese, Italian, English, Spanish and Arabic. 3. She was granted Humanitarian award on April 3, 2006, for starting a charitable foundation, Barefoot, to help children in her native Colombia escape violence. 4. Shakira is a smarty-pants with an IQ of 140. The average is 100. 5. Shakira was invited to The White House by President Obama in 2010 to discuss early childhood development and in 2011 was appointed as a member of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. 6. Her father is a Lebanese, while her mother is a Spanish-Italian. Her father's name is William Mebarak Chadid and mother's name is Nidia del Carmen Ripoll. 7. Shakira is the second most 'liked' celebrity on Facebook, she has over 100 million likes and is called the Queen of Facebook. 8. She recorded her very first album when she was only 13.

10 Facts about BBC

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10 Facts about BBC: 1. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, and is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. 2. BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned. 3. Britons have to pay $230 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC 4. British nuclear submarines have orders to launch nuclear missiles if they cannot tune into BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ program for a number of consecutive days.  5. Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd which sells BBC programmes an

10 Facts about Kesha

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10 Facts about Kesha: 1. Her name really is Ke$ha… minu$ the dollar $igns. Her full name: Kesha Rose Sebert. 2. She's a Genius. The star reportedly scored 1500 on her SAT’s, and has an IQ of over 140 which only makes her narrowly miss out on being a part of the genius category! 3. Apparently, the singer recently revealed that she spends thousands of dollars a month on glittery goodness, even adding that “It’s my goal to cover the planet in glitter”. 4. Ke$ha states that whil e she was at high school, she used to drive to Belmont University to attend college classes on topics such as the Cold War for fun! In the star's own words, "I love learning". 5. Ke$ha says that if she had not reached such success as a singer, she would have gone to Barnard to study to be a psychologist. 6. Pebe Sebert is not only Ke$ha's mom, but she is also a singer and songwriter in her own right. Pebe also raised Ke$ha all on her own and has never told the star w

10 Facts about the Apollo 11's Historic Moon Landing

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10 Facts about the Apollo 11's Historic Moon Landing: 1. Armstrong was the first human to step foot on the moon, but Aldrin holds the title as the first man to urinate on it.  2. Aldrin and Armstrong reported that the moon smelled a bit like wet ashes and gunpowder. 3. Neil Armstrong’s mom single worry was that the lunar crust was too delicate and wouldn’t support her son’s weight when he walked on it. 4. The Apollo computers had less processing power than a cellphone. 5. Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo 11's hydrogen-gas filters didn't work, making every drink bubbly. 6. Urinating and defecating in zero gravity had not been figured out; the latter was so troublesome that at least one astronaut spent his entire mission on an anti-diarrhea drug to avoid it. 7. The inner bladder of the space suits—the airtight liner that keeps the astronaut's body under Earth-like pressure—and the ship's computer's ROM chips we

10 Facts about Selena Gomez

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10 Facts about Selena Gomez: 1. Selena Marie Gomez is her full name. 2. Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old. 3. Selena was discovered by Disney in a nation-wide casting call. 4. During the National Council of La Raza’s ALMA Awards, Selena Gomez won the award for comedy for her performance in Wizards of Waverly Place. 5. Selena Gomez started acting at the age of 7. Back in those days, she featured with a big purple dinosaur named Barney on ‘Barney & Friends’. She admitted in 2008 that as a child she knew nothing about acting and was pretty shy and that she learned a lot from Barney. 6. Selena co-starred in a number of television shows with Demi Lovato. Lovato is Selena’s best friend. The two of them met at ‘Barney & Friends’. 7. Selena dated Canadian pop star Justin Bieber till January 2013. ‘Never Say Never’, ‘Love Me’ and ‘One Time’ are three of Bieber’s songs that are Selena’s favourite. 8. In October 2015, she announced that sh