10 less known facts about J. K. Rowling in under 3 minutes for this International Women's Day

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What better way to celebrate International Women's Day 2017 than to share 10 quick less known facts about J. K. Rowling, the world's first billionaire author of the Harry Potter series.

Find out 10 quick less known facts about her in under 3 minutes.

Her life has been anything but easy before she rose to fame through Harry Potter. At Harvard University, she gave one of her most famous public speech, a speech on the importance of failure.

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10 quick less known facts about J. K. Rowling, the world's first billionaire author.

Fact 1: In 1982 J. K. Rowling was rejected by Oxford University.

Fact 2: In 1990 she first got the idea of Harry Potter while traveling in a train from Manchester to London.

Fact 3: In 1992 she moved to Portugal to teach English.

Fact 4: In 1993 She had a divorce and became a single parent to a baby girl.

Fact 5: She was then jobless with a dependent child and was living on government assisted welfare.

Fact 6: In 1995 all 12 giant publishing houses rejected Harry Potter

Fact 7: In 1996 Bloomsbury publishing said yes! Rowling got £1500 as advance.

Fact 8: In 1999 Rowling became the first in the history of New York Times bestsellers list to have all top 3 books by the same author.

Fact 9: Her full name is Joanne Kathleen Rowling and Kathleen is the name of her grandmother.

Fact 10: In June 2008 Rowling gave a Harvard commencement speech on the importance of failure.

"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default."
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard University, June 2008.