13. Hot Wheels

13. Hot Wheels

We bet you're wishing that instead of zooming around the house with your Hot Wheels cars you were keeping them in mint condition in their boxes instead. These little vehicles are worth a fortune now and we're kicking ourselves for being so frivolous with ours. We would have been picked on for not joining the car races as kids, but we'd truly be having the last laugh now.

If you own the 1971 Purple Olds 442, 1968 Custom Volkswagen without sunroof, or 1968 White Enamel Camaro, they could fetch anywhere between $1,500 and $2,500. The 1970 Red Baron with white interior, 1995 Collector Number 271 Funny Car, 1970 Ed Shaver Custom AMX, and 1970 "Mad Maverick" Base Mighty Maverick will net you $3,000 to $4,500. The most valuable is the 1969 Pink Volkswagen Beach Bomb, at $72,000, but that's because there's only one.

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Did You Know...

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Most of your favorite celebrities either studied acting in college or went straight from high school into a life of the arts. But, hey, not all of them. Some celebrities actually have advanced college degrees.

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Turns out Mayim Bialik is just as much of a genius as the one she plays on The Big Bang Theory. She earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on obsessive compulsive disorder among people with Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare condition in which the hypothalamus malfunctions.

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Little known fact: Natalie Portman skipped the premiere of Star Wars: Phantom Menace because she was studying for her high school exams. She had two papers published in scientific journals while she was still in high school, and graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Psychology.

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Before he was looking for answers on X-Files, David Duchovny was just trying to find the answers for English finals at Princeton University90. David graduated from Princeton in 1982 with a B.A in English. He continued to feed his love of literature by receiving a master’s degree in English Literature at Yale University. David was an excellent writer and poet. His work consistently received praise by his fellow classmates and teachers at Yale. His writing was even nominated for a college prize by the Academy of American Poets.

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Sigourney Weaver graduated from Stanford University in 1971 with a bachelor’s in Literature. It was while studying at Stanford that Sigourney realized her true passion in life was to become an actress. Shortly after graduation, she attended Yale for their well-known drama program. She would go on to receive a master’s in Acting from Yale University and become friends with fellow famous actress Meryl Streep.

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Meryl Streep is considered one of the most successful actresses of all time. She is also one of the most highly educated. Before collecting an array of Oscars, Meryl collected diplomas. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in 1971. Meryl has a habit of being unsatisfied with impressive accomplishments as her acting career has shown, so she attended Yale University and earned a master’s degree in Acting.

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