50 Things You Didn't Know About Rihanna

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For coming on a decade now, Rihanna has dominated the music industry.

From girl-next-door to girl-gone-wild, Rihanna's image has changed over the years. As she's grown in age and experience, she's taken the reigns of her career and become one of the most famous faces on the planet. Everything—trauma and drama in her personal life, chart-topping smashes like "Stay" and "Umbrella," vice like pot and junk food—has been on full display.

As she's ascended to superstars status, Rihanna has been reticent to discuss private matters—especially her tumultuous, on-again-off-again relationship with fellow R&B luminary Chris Brown. But throughout the years, in various interviews, she has revealed the bits and pieces of her past that make her who she is today.

These are the 50 Things You Didn't Know About Rihanna.

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Rihanna witnessed an exorcism in Barbados at church

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Rihanna will not go to the Chateau Marmont because she's afraid of ghosts.

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Rihanna once walked in on her father smoking crack in their Barbados home.

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Rihanna was chosen as the Maid of Honor at Katy Perry's wedding but could not fly to India to attend due to conflic

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Chris Brown gave Rihanna a bouquet of marijuana for Valentine's Day

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Rihanna served in the Army Cadets-and Shontelle was her drill sergeant.

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Rihanna struggled with crippling headaches during her childhood.

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Rihanna's entire tour rider is filled with junk food.

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Rihanna promoted her debut album as an opening act on Gwen Stefani's tour.

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In February 2008, Barbados created a national holiday to honor Rihanna.

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Rihanna has admitted that she wants to be the black Madonna.

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Rihanna's tour guitarist is Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme.

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Rihanna specifically wanted to make a strip club song on Unapologetic.

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Before her shows, Rihanna sometimes sneaks out into the audience.

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Rihanna takes a shot of liquor before she goes onstage to calm her nerves.

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Rihanna has tattoo that reads "never a failure, always a lesson" backwards.

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Jay-Z signed Rihanna on the same day he met her.

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Rihanna is a big fan of the emo band Flyleaf.

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Rihanna won her high school's beauty pageant and the title of Miss Combermere.

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Rihanna has turned down Playboy covers multiple times.

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After her shows, Rihanna says she strips down to just her fishnets for 30 minutes.

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Rihanna has the most number one hits on the US Billboard Pop Songs Chart.

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Rihanna has said that the beginning of her career felt claustrophobic, and that she w

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Rihanna's favorite restaurant is Giorgio Baldi.

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Jay-Z makes Rihanna try a lot of different foods.

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Rihanna actually wears her own perfume, Nude.

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"Umbrella" was Rihanna's favorite song of her own until "Diamonds."

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Rihanna never graduated from high school

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Nothing bothers Rihanna more than when life's perfect.

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In 2007, Rihanna said she's "not fascinated by diamonds."

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Jay-Z doing the intro on "Umbrella" was kept as a secret from Rihanna.

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Rihanna hit her younger brother in the face with a glass bottle.

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Manolo Blahnik makes custom shoes for Rihanna.

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Rihanna didn't like "Pon de Replay" at first.

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Rihanna was discovered by vacationing music producers in Barbados.

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The line "I'm such a f***in' lady" from "Wait Your Turn" has become a mantra for Rihanna.

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Rihanna's favorite Caribbean dish is curry chicken.

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If she wasn't a recording artist, Rihanna would be in school studying psychology.

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Rihanna is friends with more men than women.

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Rihanna reached out to Nicki Minaj about co-writing uptempo songs for Rated R but was surprised when Nicki sent her back ballads instead.

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Before she gets a bikini wax, Rihanna specifies that the waxer must be older and speak a foreign language.

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Rihanna is of Afro-Guyanese, Barbadian and Irish descent.

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Rihanna was still relatively unknown in 2005 when someone spray-painted in big letters on a wall at the University

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The backlash to her "Birthday Cake" remix with Chris Brown took Rihanna by surprise.

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Rihanna made a cameo appearance in the movie Bring It On: All or Nothing.

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Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" is one of Rihanna's favorite records.

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Rihanna loves pranking people.

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Rihanna's favorite movie is Napoleon Dynamite.

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Rihanna appeared on an episode of "All My Children."

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Rihanna has her legs insured for $1 Million.

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