Beyoncé

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Who run the world? Girls! You tell them, Beyoncé.

1) Before Destiny's Child became famous, Beyoncé's father Mathew made the girls sing while jogging to build up their performance stamina.

2) In grade school, Beyoncé says she was teased about her ears, which claims were "bigger than [her] head."

3) Beyoncé, a lifelong art enthusiast, started painting at 17. She says she was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh and tried to copy his style.

4) In 2000, Beyoncé suffered a bout of depression after LaTivia Roberson and LeToya Luckett quit the Destiny's Child and sued her father, Mathew, for mismanagement. "I didn't eat," she explained to Parade magazine in 2006. "I stayed in my room. I was in a really bad place in life, going through that lonely period: 'Who am I? Who are my friends?' My life changed."

5) Early in her solo career, Beyoncé walked off the set of a photo shoot after photographer David LaChapelle asked her to pose naked and smothered in honey.

6) If Beyoncé had a day of total anonymity she says she'd like to walk down Times Square, something she's never been able to do.

7) In 2004, Beyoncé suffered through a lot of wisdom teeth-related pain because she couldn't fit two weeks of puffy-faced recovery time into her schedule.

8) After the Super Bowl, Beyoncé rewarded herself with a holiday filled with fried food.

9) Beyoncé had a sinus infection when she recorded "XO."

10) Beyoncé was the first woman to win six Grammys in a single night.

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