Brazilian soccer star Ronaldinho first gained media attention after he scored every goal in a 23-0 game at age 13.

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, or Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian football (soccer) star who has twice won FIFA World Player of the Year. Ronaldinho was born in Porto Alegre as the son of a salesperson and shipyard worker. 

His father had also played football, but had died of a heart attack when Ronaldinho was eight. When Ronaldinho’s older brother signed with a football team, the family moved to a more wealthy area. It was short lived, though, as his brother ended his career after an injury.

 When Ronaldinho was only 8, he also began to show skills in football. When he was 13, and scored 23 goals in a 23-0 victory against a local team. He was identified as a rising star at the 1997 U-17 World Championship, where he scored two goals from penalty kicks. 

From there, his fame rose to where he is today. If you remember when YouTube was brand new, you might recall that a 2005 Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho performing impressive feats with a soccer ball was the first YouTube video to break 1 million views. 

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Levi's made Bing Crosby a denim tuxedo after he was turned away from a hotel for wearing jeans!

Today wearing denim is completely normal and no one would be looked down on for it. However, only sixty years ago this wasn’t the case. Bing Crosby loved wearing jeans and jean jackets, and when he went hunting in Vancouver, Canada, he wore his comfortable jean outfit.

When he approached a hotel to check in the clerk declared that he would not be allowed to stay in the hotel because of how he was dressed. At the time it was not appropriate to wear almost anything other than a suit out of the house. When the denim company Levi’s found out, they tailored an entirely denim tuxedo for Bing Crosby, which became one of his most famous outfits!

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Pop Rocks caused such a panic, the FDA set up a hotline to assure parents their kids wouldn't die from eating them!

First created in 1956, Pop Rocks were not quick to catch on. One of the reasons for this was that parents at first believed them to be extremely dangerous! When people eat them now there isn’t much fear that they could potentially explode, yet fifty years ago this was a very real fear!

The classic pop-pop-pop sound and feeling that one experiences when eating Pop Rocks was so new and strange, rumors of exploding children were widely circulated throughout the US. In response, the FDA set up a hotline to ensure parents that their kids were completely safe!

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Shakespeare's pipe contained cocaine, cannabis and acid!

William Shakespeare is arguably the most famous and most read playwright in history. To this day, nearly four centuries after his death, his works continue to be read and studied in schools across the world. While Shakespeare was no doubt a genius, recent excavations of his Stratford-upon-Avon home have found traces of various drugs that could have influenced him!

While studying some clay pipe fragments form his home, Inspector Tommie van der Merwe of the South African Police Service’s Forensic Science Laboratory found traces of cocaine and myristic acid, which is a hallucinogen that can be made out of plants such as nutmeg. Cannabis residue was also detected and some claim he even wrote about marijuana in one of his sonnets!

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Eric Clapton was blown away the first time he heard Jimi Hendrix play!

James Marshall Hendrix, more commonly known as Jimi Hendrix was an ultra talented guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is actually one of the most celebrated guitarists in recent history. He was influential in developing the amplifier feedback technique that gained popularity. And Rolling Stone named three of his albums to their list of 100 greatest albums of all time.

Eric Clapton is also a musician and singer/songwriter. He is also one of the most influential guitarists of all time. He was a three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was named fourth on Gibson's list of 50 Greatest Guitarists of all time.

Neither man has a very shabby resume when it comes to music. However, when Eric Clapton first heard Hendrix play, he was blown away. In fact, he was quoted as saying "you never told me he was THAT good!"

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