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Fighting Animals, Making Billions, and The Rejection of Jimmy Fallon

April 27, 2015

Conor McGregor on Learning How to Fight From Animals
McGregor is the explosive, big-mouthed MMA featherweight out of Dublin, set to take on the champion Jose Aldo in July. He told Esquire he doesn't believe in death. He studies animals' movements and doesn't follow rituals. "Machines don't use machines," he says, "and I am a machine."

Justine Musk on How to Be a Billionaire
Justine Musk was the first wife of the entrepreneur behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk. She knows a thing or two about billionaires. When pondering how to make a billion, she said forget the money and embrace the idea sex.

How Louis CK Ruined Stardom Early On for Jimmy Fallon
Fallon could have been working amongst comedy giants writing for the short-lived Dana Carvey Show early in his career, but Louis CK said no. Louie undoubtedly changed Fallon's fate. Why? His ass.

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