Useless Facts about People

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Useless Facts about People

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» Canadian researchers have found that Einstein's brain was 15% wider than normal.

» While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate #85.

» The actor who played Wedge in the original Star Wars trilogy has a famous nephew: actor Ewan McGregor, who plays the young Obi-Wan in the new Star Wars film.

» Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

» Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in the first three Star Wars movies, was a hospital porter in London before starring as the Wookie.

» Sheryl Crow's front two teeth are fake - she had them knocked out when she tripped on the stage earlier in her career.

» Hitler was claustrophobic. The large elevator leading to his eagles nest in the Austrian Alps was mirrored so it would appear larger and more open.

» Jim Morrison, of the 60's rock group The Doors, was the first rock star to be arrested on stage.

» Hans Christian Andersen, creator of fairy tales, was word-blind. He never learned to spell correctly, and his publishers always had the spelling errors corrected.

» Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs.

» Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. His "Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear'' shows the right one bandaged because he painted the mirror image.

» Peter Falk, who played "Columbo," has a glass eye.

» The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.

» Besides Star Trek, William Shatner, Leonard Nemoy, James Doohan, and Geoge Takei have all appeared at one time or another on "The Twilight Zone."

» Barbie's full name is "Babara Millicent Roberts."

» The original captain of Star Trek's starship "Enterprise" was Jeffrey Hunter - not William Shatner - as Christopher Pike, in the pilot episode "The cage" (1964). The cast was quite different from that of the classic series except for Leonard Nimoy as Spock.

» The mother of Michael Nesmith of "The Monkees" invented whiteout.

» Screech, from "Saved by the Bell," was the only one of the characters who played in all the episodes from the junior high, with Mrs. Bliss, to "Saved by the Bell: The New Class."

» Betsy Ross and Elvis Presley were the only real people to ever have been the head on a Pez dispenser. The Elvis Pez dispenser was named "Elvis Pezly."

» Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

» Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

» Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."

» If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand 7 feet (2 m) 2 inches (5 cm) tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.

» The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.

» Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

» Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

» Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

» The shortest British monarch was Charles I, who was 4 feet 9 inches.

» Tina Turner's real name is Annie Mae Bullock.

» Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.
 
More Useless Facts about People - part 2

URL: http://www.brainofbrian.com/facts-people2.html

» One of the many Tarzans, Karmuala Searlel, was mauled to death by a raging elephant on set.

» Elizabeth 1st suffered from anthophobia (a fear of roses).

» Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

» All 17 children of Queen Anne died before her.

» President John F Kennedy could read 4 newspapers in 20 minutes.

» All U.S Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.

» "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.

» Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.

» Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were the two left-handed Beatles.

» Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

» Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

» Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth I's mother, had six fingers on one hand.

» Gary Burgoff (Radar on MASH) always kept his left hand out of the view of the camera, either in his pocket or under a clipboard, because his left had is deformed.

» Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse, who died at birth.

» Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words none of them with the letter "E."

» The Beatles song "Dear Prudence" was written about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, when she wouldn't come out and play with Mia and the Beatles at a religious retreat in India.

» Orville Wright was involved in the first aircraft accident. His passenger, a Frenchman, was killed.

» Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the "sandwich". He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.

» The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.

» Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.

» Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize winning scientist whom discovered radium, died on 4th July 1934 of radiation poisoning.

» Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.

» Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch.

» Scientist John Harvey owns Einstein's brain. Harvey was a pathologist at a small hospital in Princeton, NJ, when Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76. Harvey performed the autopsy, determined Einstein died of natural causes, and took the brain home with him.

» Sir Isaac Newton was only 23 years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.

» Hannibal had only one eye after getting a disease while attacking Rome.

» Mark Twain, real name Samuel Clemens, worked on a riverboat when he was a teenager. The call "Mark twain!" meant that the water was deep enough to proceed safely.

» Elvis' hair color was originally blonde. He dyed it black because he was a big fan of Roy Orbison.
 
I learned something here.....I didn't know Elvis was really a BLONDE!! (but that makes sense why Lisa Marie had blonde hair when she was little - I've seen Priscilla's hair when she was young in photos, it was a dark color).
 
Hmm... another "what if" scenario!

I go back in time and take that doctor's place. The mother wants an abortion and I say, "fine."
 
then Nazi and skinhead would have not exist.
but what about KKK, they were here before Hitler....

do you think there is another hate group somewhere in the World?


Hitler was going to be an artist... a painter... but he was turned down...
or his father didn't want him to be that...
I don't know...
So I guess he became a con artist.

That is awful his mother didn't want him, rejected him....
and he felt unlove... and grew hate within himself.
 
VamPyroX said:
Hmm... another "what if" scenario!

I go back in time and take that doctor's place. The mother wants an abortion and I say, "fine."

I find that interesting that abortion existed in the late 1800s! :shock: People back then had a LOT of kids which is why I am shocked. I knew abortion existed in the 1960s (Rubella Bulge), but it was illegal back then. I am one of the Rubella babies in the late 1960s that lived throughout the pregnancy.

But, yes, I know what you mean, Vampy. :) So he won't kill all those people in the 30s and 40s.
 
Miss*Pinocchio said:
Hitler was going to be an artist... a painter... but he was turned down...
or his father didn't want him to be that...
I don't know...
So I guess he became a con artist.

That is awful his mother didn't want him, rejected him....
and he felt unlove... and grew hate within himself.

I can definately see that. Hitler's mom didn't want him, & rejected him, she really didn't want to give birth to him to begin with. So as he was born, his mom grew to hate her son or dislike him. In turn, yes, Hitler "grew hate within himself". Perhaps that's how he developed to be a killer of thousands of people. Hitler was also a drug addict, perhaps with the drugs he was taking, also helped him to go down hill, & turh him into a crazy killer of thousands of people. That's just my speculation, ofcourse, & that's my two cents.
 
Something to ponder...if we went back in time and removed Hitler, how or what will the world be like today? Will we in WWII? Will the Europe and the world be the same or different? Would we have developed atomic/nuclear technology?
 
Well, I didn't know that.....

Tina Turner's real name is : Annie Mae Bullock.

*So now, I'm wondering.....
Is Tina Turner & Sandra Bullock related?? :confused:

Elvis had a twin brother that died in birth.

Elvis had blond hair from birth.

The mother of Micheal Nesmith (in the monkees) invented the white out.

Who would have guessed?. :| :confused:

Thanks. :)
 
Nancy said:
I find that interesting that abortion existed in the late 1800s! :shock: People back then had a LOT of kids which is why I am shocked. I knew abortion existed in the 1960s (Rubella Bulge), but it was illegal back then.

Abortion was called "Infanticide" back then... the "practice" went all way back to year of 1600s in our America puritan society where 85% (It could be 65 but it was more than half) marriages were a husband and a pregnant bride (already pregnant on the wedding day! so PREMATRIAL SEX does exist in Puritan societies) so some women did opt for an infanticide to avoid being entrapped into a marriage to the man who impregnated them. So "abortion" is not a new idea, unfortunately.
It could even go all way back to Greek/Roman empire and the Eypgtian empire... women who are in power cannot afford to be pregnant because then it is an excuse for men to dominate over the women and force them to return to their "domestic" sphere and enable men to rule.

(Sorry, the spirit of Women's Studies had possessed me.)
 
BabyAngel said:
I didnt even know that Marilyn Monroe had six toes!! :eek:

Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 (or 16?) and she was THE sex symbol!!!

What is the matter with men today who ogle over size ZERO models that got flat chest, no butt, or no curves!?!

Another "stupid/worthless" fact about Monroe:
Twiggy and Marilyn Monroe has the same proportions in both's body figures-- math plays a role here... both have like 60% decrease from shoulder's width to waist then some precentage increase to hips to give them a hourglass figure...
But the only difference is that Twiggy is size 3 (best as I can remember) and Monroe was a 14 yet both still carry the same figurine and both were the most sought after by men (to fuck) and women (to obtain the same size/shape).

It is weird how we see what is beautiful and what is not "sexy" really changes only in few decades! plumpy and voluptuous 50's to skinny and "twiggy" 70's!
 
» The world's longest name officially used by a person is "Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior" which is composed of 28 words or 192 letters.
:wtf: Wolfie has 26 names that comes in ABC?? OMFG :crazy:
 
*:bump:* i find it so interesting. maybe check with snope and google to make sure its fact. :D
 
I got curious about Gary Burghoff and I found his bio online: "Although unnoticeable in his work, Gary was born with three fingers on his left hand slightly smaller than normal."
Gary Burghoff's Biography
 
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