You may know that the U.K. pop group One Direction broke records when it hit the U.S. music scene. The singers' album Up All Night debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard charts. But did you know that: - the stars didn't know each other before getting their big break on The X Factor with Simon Cowell? - the band needed 100 security guards for its first performance in Dallas, Texas? - one of the band members has a fear of spoons? Want to know more...

You may know that singing sensation Taylor Swift has won over fans of both pop and country music. But did you know that Taylor:

used to help out on her family's Christmas tree farm by pulling bugs off the trees? Yuck!

won a national poetry contest in fourth grade with her poem "Monster in My Closet"?

thought of the melody for her hit song "Tim McGraw" in her ninth-grade math class and sang it into her phone in the school bathroom so

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