10 Things You Didn’t Know About Oprah Winfrey 

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complex.com

Oprah is the first African-American star to be on the cover of Vogue.

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In 2013, Oprah was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the nation’s highest civilian honour) by President Barack Obama.

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pinkvilla.com

Oprah Winfrey is at least 8% Native American – something she discovered when undergoing a DNA test for the PBS show African American Lives.

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theguardian.com

Winfrey has donated her voice for an array of cartoon characters, voicing Gussie the goose for Charlotte’s Web, and Eudora, the mother of Princess Tiana in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog, among others.

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50 Cent named his dog after her, and his cat after her best friend, Gayle.

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The name of her production company is Harpo, which is Oprah spelled backward. 

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bet.com

She celebrated her 51st birthday by getting her ears pierced.

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Her parents had named her Orpah, after a biblical character from the Book of Ruth, but it was misspelled on her birth certificate, and it somehow stuck.

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vogue.co.uk

She became and remains the first African American female billionaire. Not only was she named the first African American female billionaire in history in 2003 by Forbes, she remains the only African American female billionaire on the list. EVER.

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Every week, her inbox is filled with 12,000 emails from fans all over the world.