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TIL Emma Stone, an Actress, gave a PowerPoint presentation to her parents, set to the Madonna song “Hollywood”, to convince them to let her move to California for an acting career. Also, Stone’s low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of frequent screaming as an infant

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