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A armless Chinese man has learned to play piano with his feet.

Liu Wei lost both his arms at age 10 because he touched a high voltage wire during a game of hide-and-seek. His first piano teacher quit and said it was impossible for a person without fingers to play piano, so Wei decided to teach himself! He has gone on to win China's Got Talent, China's version of the hit TV talent show.

Check out his championship performance of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" below:
(The song starts at 2:20)

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Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants, is also the voice of Dog on Catdog and the Mayor of Townsville on The Powerpuff Girls!

Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob Squarepants, is also the voice of Dog on Catdog and the Mayor of Townsville on The Powerpuff Girls!

He's also done voice work for Rocko's Modern Life, Dragon Ball Z, Futurama, and The Fairly Oddparents. He also lent his talents to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and he'll be playing Rabbit in the new Winnie the Pooh movie.
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In the movie Up, 10,297 balloons were used to lift Carl's house.

The folks at Pixar calculated that in actuality, it would take over 26.5 million balloons to lift such a house!
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Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief was originally written as a bedtime story for his son who suffered from ADHD and dyslexia.

When Riordan's eldest son Haley was in second grade, he asked his father to read him stories of Greek mythology. Once Rick ran out of the real myths, he decided to create his own! Haley enjoyed these modern retellings so much that he urged his father to publish them in a book! The fruit of these labors is the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (think Harry Potter, but with Greek mythology instead of wizardry). The main character of the series, Percy, was written to have ADHD and dyslexia so Haley could have someone to whome he could relate!
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The song "Fireflies" by Owl City was written because of singer Adam Young's insomnia.

Young says that the disorder is both a blessing and a curse because while 3-5 hours of sleep per night allows him to be more productive, inspiration frequently tends to strike just as he is about to sleep. One of these sleepless nights in front of his keyboard yielded the smash hit "Fireflies." Young says that he was simply fooling around and not trying to write anything - the song just developed over a couple of hours. He didn't even realize it had the potential to be a hit!
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