Here is a collection of strange attractive and amazing facts,
interesting facts, bizarre facts, wonderful, strange and amazing happenings
about celebrity around the World, random and fascinating facts about the
earth:-
1 Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
2 One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual
income to the IRS.
3 A childhood virus left Rob
Lowe completely deaf in his right ear. "No stereo for me" he
says "It's a mono world".
4 Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of
Israel in 1952, but he declined.
5 Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and
Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.
6 After Drew Barrymore posed for
Playboy in 1995, Steven Spielberg sent a note that said "cover
yourself up" along with a quilt and a copy of the magazine with all her
pictures altered so that she appeared fully clothed.
7 The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at
as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.
8 If you rearrange the letters in Vin Diesel it
reveals his credo: "I End Lives."
9 American Beauty star Thora
Birch's mom acted in 21 adult films including Deep Throat under the name
Carol Connors before retiring in 1993.
10 X-rays of the Mona Lisa show that there are three
completely different versions of the same subject, all painted by Leonardo Da
Vinci, under the final portrait.
11 Whoopi Goldberg's real name is Caryn Elaine
Johnson.
12 Angelina Jolie's uncle who looks just like
John Voight, Chip Taylor, wrote the song "Wild Thing"
13 When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept
warm by burning his own paintings.
14 When he was only 13, Johnny Depp lost his virginity
to a girl slightly older than him.
15 As a 2nd grader Jamie Foxx was so
talented at telling jokes, his teacher used him as a reward. If the class
behaved, Jamie would entertain them.
16 When Britney Spears books into hotels she uses the
name 'Allota Warmheart' so that nobody will recognize her.
17 Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was
afraid of mice.
18 As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to
bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
19 Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart had no idea how to
play chess when they appeared in X-Men 2.
20 Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
21 At age 10, Justin Timberlake won 1991
pre-teen Mr. America pageant. The following year, he became the first male
winner of America's Universal Charm pageant.
22 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast
while having his head rubbed with vaseline.
23 Trueman Capote the man who wrote Breakfast at
Tiffany's had the middle name of Stucklefuss!
24 At the age of 7, Reese
Witherspoon appeared in a television commercial fora local Nashville
Florist.
25 Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of
the dark!
26 There have been 47 Charlie Chan Movies, with six
actors playing the part. None were Chinese!
27 Before becoming an actress, Aussie Naomi
Watts worked as an assistant fashion editor at a fashion magazine called
Follow Me.
28 The original Toby jugs were modelled on Harry
'Toby' Elwes a Yorkshireman!
29 The original title of Jane Austen's novel Pride and
Prejudice was First Impression!
30 Both Olsen twins had to wear fake teeth
during the later years of Full House because their smiles began to look
different.
31 The mother of the boy Michael Jackson is accused of
abusing is named 'Janet Jackson'.
32 The great warrior Ghengis Khan died in bed while
having sex.
33 Brad Pitt belonged to the Key Club and the
Forensics Club in High School, and before he became an actor he supported
himself as a chauffeur, a furniture mover and a costumed mascot for the
restaurant, El Pollo Loco.
34 The first person to go over Niagara falls was Annie
Edson-Taylor. She made the trip in a wooden barrel and survived!
35 Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to
smuggle 10lbs of Marijuana during his 20th Birthday.
36 Brittany Murphy claims she started speaking at
4 and a half months. She also says she was a very "energetic child, really
bubbly...extremely precocious"
37 Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.
38 Sheryl Crow's two front teeth are fake.
39 Butt-Kicking Kill Bill siren Uma Thurman is
a crafty one. "I knit" she admits, adding "I love glue gun
projects"
40 Sharon Stone is allergic to caffeine.
41 Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses!
42 Catherine Zeta Jones' father owned a candy
factory, but the star says she rarely indulged: "I had so many sweets and
candy hanging around my house that I never even bothered with them".
43 Rudyard Kipling refused to write with anything
other than black ink.
44 Richard Nixon liked ketchup on his cottage cheese.
45 Christina Applegate attended the 1989 MTV
Movie Awards with Brad Pitt, but dumped him at the event and left with someone
else. "We were really good friends when I was about 16. We went to the
awards and I ditched him! I left him there and I feel really bad about it...I
really really do. I left with somebody else"
46 Ralph Lauren's original name is Ralph Lifshitz.
47 Queen Elizabeth II has a rubber duck in her private
bath with an inflatable crown.
48 Claire Danes has a swing in her apartment.
"My parents had a swing, a trapeze and a trampoline in their apartment, I
was inspired by that"
49 Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on
the same airplane as a precaution!
50 President George W. Bush is related to all other
U.S. Presidents!
51 Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the
first woman he fell in love with. "I used to leave Smarties, the Irish
equivalent of M&Ms, under my pillow with a little note saying, "I know
you're dead but these are very tasty and you should come and have a few. i wont
tell anyone"
52 Steve Jobs was half Arab.
53 President Bush and Saddam Hussein both had their
shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!
54 Comic actor Jack Black is the son of
rocket scientists. His mother worked on the Hubble telescope, and his father
worked on "some stuff that i can't tell you about," Jack says.
55 Pocahontas appeared on the back of the $20 bill in
1875.
56 Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a
fire eater!
57 Daryl Hannah is co creator of the board game
Liebrary
58 None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul
McCartney eventually taught himself.)
59 No one knows where Mozart is buried.
60 Demi Moore, who has earned up to 20 million per
movie, first found work as a bill collector
61 Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister.
62 More people have seen David Copperfield perform
live than any other performer in the world.
63 Diane Lane's mom, Colleen Farrington, was playboy's
Miss October 1957 (the ex playmate was also pregnant in one of her photo
shoots)
64 Michael Keaton's original name is Michael Douglas.
65 Michael Jordan was cut from his high school
basketball team his sophomore year.
66 Early in her career, Whitney Houston sang
the jingle used in commercials for Bounce fabric sheets.
67 Mel Gibson has a horseshoe kidney (two kidneys
fused into one)!
68 Oprah Winfrey makes $10 per second.
69 Eva Longoria starred in the 2004 flick
Carlita's Secret, a crime drama in which she shared a same-sex smooch with
actress Maria Bravo. "It was the most fun i've ever had kissing
somebody".
70 Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to
carrots!
71 Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in
prison.
72 Even though she appears in ads for Tommy Hilfiger's
True Star fragrances, Beyonce is reportedly allergic to perfume.
73 Mark Twain didn't even make it through elementary
school.
74 Leonardo DiCaprio got his first 'onscreen kiss'
from a man!
75 George Clooney sometimes sleeps in the walk-in
closet of his LA mansion because, he says, "all the bedrooms are too
light".
76 Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.
77 King George I could not speak English!
78 Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey began
his career as a juggling unicycle-riding clown.
79 Keanu Reeves is afraid of the dark.
80 Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold
for over $3,000 on eBay!
81 Gwen Stefani admits that she's had only two
boyfriends in her life: No Doubt band mate Tony Kanal and husband Gavin Rossdale.
82 Johnny Depp suffers from self-injury.
83 Jimmy Hoffa's middle name is, appropriately,
Riddle.
84 Halle Berry used to date New Kid on the Block
Danny Wood. They broke up because the band thought she was a groupie.
85 Prince William's nickname in college was
"P-Willy".
86 Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were
all 27 years old when they died.
87 Heidi Klum is an avid painter and several of
her works have appeared in US art magazines.
88 Jennifer Aniston's original name is Jennifer
Anastassakis!
89 Jean -Claude Van Damme learned to speak English by
watching the cartoon 'The Flintstones.'"
90 In 1985, a four year old Alicia
Keys appeared on The Cosby Show as one of the guests at Rudy's slumber party.
91 James Bond is also known as Mr.
Kiss-Kiss-Bang-Bang.
92 Jackie Kennedy Onassis was secretly a chain smoker.
93 In 1985, Teri Hatcher played a dancing
mermaid on The Love Boat. "That was the first job I ever had" she
says. "I left college before finishing my math degree to go do that".
94 In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an
"Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!
95 In high school, Robin Williams was voted 'Least
Likely to Succeed.'"
96 In 1993, Jessica Simpson tried out for the
Mickey Mouse Club but panicked after watching Christina Aguilera audition.
"I froze and forgot everything" she says. She lost out to both
Christina and Britney Spears.
97 In 1954, Bob Hawke was immortalized by the Guinness
Book of Records for chugging 2.5 pints of beer in 12 seconds.
98 Houdini was the first man to fly a plane solo in
Australia.
99 In a high school talent show, Matt
Damon performed the talking heads' "Burning Down the House"
100 Harrison Ford has a species of spider named after him!
101 The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of
Queen Victoria.
102 In the early 70s, Richard Gere played Danny Zuko in
a London production of Grease.
103 Halle Berry's stunt double, in the movie "Cat Woman"
was infact a man.
104 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana on their
plantations!
105 Jake Gyllenhaal got his first driving lesson from family
friend Paul Newman
106 Enrico Caruso and Roy Orbison were the only tenors this
century capable of hitting e over high c!
107 Elvis Presley got a 'C' in his eighth grade music class.
108 Jennifer Love Hewitt sent Matt Damon an
inflatable bed because she read he didn't feel like he has a bed of his own.
She never heard back and now, he "looks at me a little weird".
109 Eddie Cochran's last recording before he died was Three Steps
to Heaven!
110 During his lifetime, Herman Melville's Moby Dick sold only 50
copies.
111 Julia Roberts' left eye tears up when she gets nervous.
112 During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of
his paintings.
113 Drew Carey once worked at a Denny's.
114 Keira Knightley was Queen Amidala's decoy in Star Wars:
Episode 1 though the film was promoted as if Natalie Portman played both roles.
115 Cleopatras real name was Auletes!
116 Burt Reynolds is a Cherokee Indian.
117 Madonna is related to both Gwen Stefani and Celine
Dion. Gwen's great aunt's mother-in-law shares the same last name as Madonna
Ciccone and an ancestor of Madonna's mother was married to a distant relative
of Celine's dad.
118 When Prince William becomes king, he will be the forty-fourth
monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.
119 Brad Pitt has been smoking since the sixth grade!
120 Mariah Carey was nicknamed "Mirage" in high
school because she never showed up for class.
121 Bob Hope and Billy Joel were both once boxers.
122 Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after
being introduced. A replacement was found.
123 Matthew Perry is missing part of his middle finger on his
right hand due to a door-shutting accident.
124 Bill Gates designed a traffic control system for Seattle when
he was only 15!
125 Betsy Ross was born with a fully formed set of teeth.
126 Paris Hilton has size 11 feet! "All those super cute
shoes like Guccis and Monolos look like clown shoes on me"
127 Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool!
He changed it every 2 innings!
128 Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was
an ophthalmologist by profession!
129 Russell Crowe was once a pompadoured singer named Russ Le
Roq. His first single was "I want to be like marlon brando"...even
though he'd never seen a Brando movie when he wrote the song.
130 An American urologist once bought Napoleon's penis for
$40,000.
131 Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
132 Struggling actress Charlize Theron landed her first
agent in a bank. He signed her after witnessing her throwing a fit at a bank
teller who refused to cash her check.
133 Albert Einstien never wore any socks.
134 Elvis had a twin.
135 Tara Reid attended high school in New Jersey with
American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis.
136 Al Capone died in prison from syphillis - despite being the
first sufferer to be treated with antibiotics!
137 Adult movie star, Ron Jeremy, has a master's degree in Special
Education.
138 Though Christina Aguilera is of Ecuadorian descent
and recorded an album in Spanish, she doesn't speak the language. I gathered
that when she said mai gousta kantaar
139 Actor Val Kilmer grew up on Roy Rogers' ranch.
140 Actor Mark Wahlberg has a third nipple!
141 Tom Cruise admits that he still does the Risky Business
underwear dance when hes at home alone. He calls it his "dance of
freedom".
142 Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
143 Warren Beatty once worked as a rat-catcher!
144 Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note
by a child: 12.1 seconds
145 Rapper LL Cool J's name is short for 'Ladies Love Cool James'.
146 Malcolm X's original name is Malcolm Little.
147 When he was little, Ben Affleck asked his mom for a
dog and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary pup for a week. In the
end, he only lasted five days and didn't get the dog.
148 King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
149 Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.
150 While attending Princeton, Prison Break star Wentworth
Miller traveled the world performing with the school's acapella group, The
Princeton Tigertones
