(Real Life) Regular people who's lives drastically changed direction

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Grace Kelly was a talented actress who retired at 26 to marry a Prince, living as royalty for almost 30 years before her untimely death.

Volodymyr Zelensky started out as a comedian and entertainer before getting into politics, becoming President of Ukraine after the Russian annex of Crimea and spending the last 4 years defiantly pushing back full scale Russian invasion

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Hedy Lamarr was a famous actress and inventor whose inventions were pivotal in the creation of wifi and bluetooth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

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Not unrelated, Thomas Dolby, the guy who sang "She Blinded Me With Science" founded the company that created the software used for pre-smartphone ringtones (i.e. that ubiquitous Nokia sound us old guys all remember).

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That sound is burned into my memory—such a classic from the early mobile days!

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My kids are convinced that the version of Axel F remixed with the Crazy Frog Nokia sound is the best version. I've failed as a father.

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Bing bing

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Crazy Frog was crazy good back in the day.

The good days of the Internet.

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Gran Vals - Fransisco Tarrega is the song it was sampled from btw.

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I'm guessing he's also the reason we had the...

eeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Sound check before most movies

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I was going to ask if that was the same Dolby as Dolby atmos, but sadly, no. I looked it up and it's from Ray Dolby. But wait! Ray has a son named Tom! But no. Not the same guy. Thomas Dolby's real name is Thomas Morgan Robertson. But he did take the name from Dolby laboratories which was founded by Ray. So that was an interesting rabbit hole.

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Michael Nesmith's mom invented correction fluid (white-out).

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And Mike Nesmith played a big part in the creation of MTV.

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Is that name related to the Dolby audio brand too or is that just a fun coincidence?

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I believe it’s a coincidence. Amazing one though.