25 Famous People Who Were Once Interns - mental_floss List Show (Ep.219)

Hi, I'm Paige the intern. Welcome to my boss's salon. Oh, the fireplace isn't working

Normally that's the intern's job to fix, but I'm kind of busy right now. This is Mental Floss on YouTube, and did you know that Steve Jobs was an intern at Hewlett-Packard when

he was just 12 years old? Jobs needed parts for a school project, so he found Bill Hewlett

himself in the phone book and gave him a call. By the end of the conversation, he had an internship. That summer gave him experience

putting in screws on an assembly line, but perhaps more importantly, it introduced him

to future business partner and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who worked at Hewlett-Packard

at the time. And that's the first of many famous interns that I'm going to tell you about today

Speaking of computers and people named Bill, when Bill Gates was a junior in high school, he delivered messages and prepared the House chambers for sessions as a congressional page

This work may not have influenced Gates' career as directly as Steve Jobs' internship

did, but Gates did later claim that this was when he learned to stay out of politics

Maybe if he had stuck with it, he could have been the fifth face of Mount Rushmore. As an 18-year-old, Dick Cheney was Congressman William A. Steiger's intern

Apparently, he didn't learn the same lesson as Bill Gates. On to a completely different topic, fashion

Designer, director, and Jay-Z song title Tom Ford interned at the French fashion house Chloe

Former New York Ranger Sean Avery had an internship at Vogue in 2008. And if you're a fan of the Hills, you know that Lauren Conrad was an intern at Teen Vogue

While they were in college Mary Olson interned for Annie Leibovitz and Ashley for fashion designer Zach Posen Finally both fashion designer Betsy Johnson and author Sylvia Plath worked as interns for Mademoiselle magazine Clearly this fashionable donkey has been reading Mademoiselle magazine

Oprah Winfrey began her career in television with an internship at WLAC-TV, a local news station in Nashville, Tennessee

After her internship, the station hired her as a full-time anchor. Wow, I have more in common with Oprah than I thought

I'm an intern, I'm from Tennessee, I'm hosting this show, which is kind of like being a news anchor

Maybe someday I'll be a billionaire. Oprah also starred in the 1985 film The Color Purple, which was directed by another former intern, Steven Spielberg

When he was 17, a family friend who worked at Universal Studios gave Spielberg a somewhat unofficial internship

He wasn't technically allowed on the lot, but he snuck into work every day and made connections with people in many different departments

He even created a short film called Amblin during his time as an unofficial intern, and when executives at the studio saw it, they offered him a seven-year contract, making him the youngest director ever hired by Universal

During high school, Brooke Shields was an intern at the San Diego Zoo. She helped clean, prep eucalyptus branches, and conduct daily checks in the koala exhibit

Some people, like Roger Goodle, ended up running the companies where they were interns

For the record, I totally plan on doing that. Goodle had been rejected jobs at several football teams when he finally decided to apply to the NFL

Don Weiss, the executive director of the league, simply told Goodle that there weren't any jobs available

But if he was ever in the area, he should stop by. Goodle was definitely not in the area, but he called Weiss and told him he would stop

by tomorrow. He drove seven hours to get to the NFL headquarters and they decided to hire him because he seemed nice Today he the NFL commissioner In the summer of 1980 Ursula Burns worked at Xerox as a mechanical engineering intern

Apparently, she did a great job because she was promoted several times to positions such

as executive assistant and vice president, until in 2009, she was named CEO of Xerox

This made her the first African-American woman to be the head of a Fortune 500 company

Yet another celebrity who learned at a young age that politics was not for him is Conan O'Brien

He briefly worked on Barney Frank's campaign, but ultimately decided that making copies every day was too repetitive for him

So now he just does the same talk show every day instead. Speaking of Conan, Mindy Kaling, John Krasinski, Mike Birbiglia, and Ellie Kemper were all interns for Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Kaling has called herself the worst intern that's ever worked on the program

because instead of doing the work she was supposed to do, she would kind of just stalk Conan

Although Brian Williams never graduated from college, that didn't stop him from getting an internship with President Jimmy Carter's administration

Williams opened mail, put letters under a signature machine, and got coffee

Everything an intern is supposed to do. Although President Carter had no say in the decision to hire Williams, the two did meet once during the internship

Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy, aka P Diddy, aka Diddy, got a job as an intern at Uptown Records while he was studying business at Howard University

He dropped out of college upon becoming a talent director at the company, working to develop artists such as Mary J. Blige

He actually ended up getting fired from Uptown, but his own company, Bad Boy Entertainment, went on to become extremely successful

While Tom Hanks was studying theater at California State University Sacramento he met Vincent Dowling the head of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival Dowling asked Hanks to work as an intern for the festival and the internship eventually turned into a three job that led to Hanks dropping out of college

Is it just me, or does Tom Hanks' decision to leave school early and enter the adult world sound a lot like the plot to the movie Big? I hope Castaway wasn't based on Tom Hanks' life

Ira Glass talked his way into an internship at NPR headquarters when he was 19 years old

even though he, admittedly, had never heard of public radio and didn't come from the kind of

family who would listen to it. Now you may know him as the host of the wildly popular NPR show

This American Life. Finally, I returned to John Salon to tell you that when Anderson Cooper was

a college student, he had a stint as an intern for the CIA. According to him, the job was

bureaucratic and mundane. There's also an X-Men character named Silver Fox who was in the CIA

Coincidence? Anyway, although they look cute, dimples are actually a minor muscle deformity

The muscles in the face of a person with dimples are actually too short, so they pull in the skin creating the indentation

That's why lots of babies have dimples and lose them as they grow up. The muscles lengthen enough that they no longer pull on the skin and the dimples lessen and disappear

If you have a mind-blowing question you'd like answered, leave it below in comments. Thanks again for watching, again I'm Paige, you can check out my channel over here, and

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