Eight cool facts about Oprah Winfrey you probably didn’t know

Novieku Babatunde Adeola January 29, 2020

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Winfrey was named “Orpah” after the Biblical character in the Book of Ruth on her birth certificate, but people mispronounced it regularly and “Oprah” stuck.

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