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Johnny Depp

See also: Johnny Depp Pirate Story.

Sometimes taking unexpected advice pays off, if Johnny Depp is any indication. Johnny Depp stared in some great movies including Edward Scissorhands, Don Juan DeMarco and Pirates of the Caribbean. He initially wanted to be a rock star, not a movie star. At age sixteen, he dropped out of high school to pursue his dream. After two weeks, he had a change of heart and tried to reenter school, but his principle advised him to ‘follow his dream.’ He did play in some bands, and had some success from time to time, but ended up taking various odd jobs, including selling pens. That’s when by happy accident he met Nicolas Cage, who convinced him he should try his hand at acting. That seems to have worked fairly well.

Johnny’s mother was a waitress, and his father a civil engineer. The family moved twenty times during his childhood, starting out in Kentucky, where he was born, and ending up in Florida.

According to AI (You may want to do your own research):

He has a thing for antique dolls and clowns, despite his clown phobia.

He once bought a whole vineyard in France—then forgot about it for years.

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He carries Captain Jack’s costume with him — and occasionally visits children’s hospitals in character.

He spent thousands to blast Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes out of a cannon — a promise he made to the late journalist.

He once bought Nicolas Cage out of debt, because Cage helped him early in his career.

At one point, he owned an entire village in France — complete with houses, a chapel, and a restaurant.

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Twins

One out of every 33 births results in twins. Identical twins happen about once in every 250 births. The likelihood of triplets is one in 837. These numbers are much higher than they used to be. The biggest cause is probably fertility drugs. The second largest cause for multiple births is that many women are waiting longer to have children, and later in life, the body is more likely to release more than one egg at a time.


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Growing Disgust

Infants are born without the emotion of disgust. It does not fully develop until age seven. As everyone knows children at age two will put everything in their mouths. Researchers put grasshoppers into milk glasses and offered them to five-year-olds. The kids took the grasshoppers out and drank the milk. By age seven, the kids understood the concept of contamination, and would not drink the milk.

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Small School

Because of a Massachusetts law stating that every child under age 16 is entitled to an education, the Cuttyhunk Elementary School, on an island off Cape Cod, had to stay open these past three years even though there was only one student. John Paul graduated in June and so the school, which required one teacher and one superintendent, will close. Until now, the school has cost the taxpayers $30,000 per year. Three years ago it was more cost effective at the rate of $15,000 per student, because there were two students in the school, John and his older brother Keith.