People facts
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interesting facts about Madonna
Her real name is was born Madonna Loise Veronica Ciccone.The nickname her father gave her as a child was "Little Noni". In 1989 Madonna was paid $5 million to promote Pepsi cola. Madonna was a member of the cheerleading team at Rochester Adams High School. Madonna worked as a backup dancer for ...
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Facts about Tiger Woods
His father Earl allegedly introduced Tiger to golf at age 9 months. Once so "geeky," Tiger's college friends nicknamed him "Urkel." Tiger Woods is a Buddhist by religion. Tiger Woods got the nickname of Tiger from Vuong Dang Phong, his father’s friend. Tiger's real name is Eldrick Woods. At age 6 Tiger ...
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Interesting Facts About Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin shares a birthday with 16th US President, Abraham Lincoln (was born on February 12th 1809 ). Darwin's mother died when he was eight years old. In 1825, Darwin’s father sent him to Edinburgh University to study medicine. He wasn’t cut out to be a doctor: he hated the ...
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Interesting about Lady Gaga
Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.The stage name Lady GaGa is a reference to the song "Radio Ga-Ga" by Queen. Lady Gaga learned to play the piano at the age of 4. At age 11, she was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan,[6] but instead attended Convent of ...
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Interesting Facts About Celebrities
Halle Berry made history as the first black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for 2002's Monster's Ball. Jenna Jameson started acting in erotic films in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. Michael Jackson of the few artists to have been inducted into the Rock ...
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Interesting facts about Mark Twain
His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.Twain adopted his pen name in 1863 in Nevada. While he was a teenager, Mark Twain worked as an amateur printer. Mark Twain published more than 30 books throughout his career. Twain was a steamboat pilot apprentice on the Mississippi River and eventually earned his ...
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interesting facts about Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1856. Sigmund Freud is the founder of the science of psychology . His book The Interpretation of Dreams began the complex theory of Psychoanalytic. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns. Sigmund Freud was deathly afraid of the number 62 and would not ...
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interesting facts about Walt Disney
Walt Disney didn't graduate from high school . At age 16, during World War I, he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross. Walt Disney was the voice of Mickey Mouse for two decades. Walt Disney won more Oscars than anyone else (32). In ...
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interesting facts about Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was partially deaf. He developed this problem in his childhood days. He built his own science laboratory at the age of 10. This was built in the basement of his home. Edison’s First Patented Invention was a Flop. In 1910 Invented the Edison battery, which used an alkaline ...
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interesting facts about Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Churchill painted more than 570 paintings, but only a few major shows were held in his own lifetime. He wrote 3 books, saw 4 wars on 4 continents and was elected to the House of Commons - all by ...
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Interesting facts about Pablo Picasso
Picasso's full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. His father was a painter and a professor of art at the School of Crafts and the curator of a local ...
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Interesting facts about presidents
Clinton and George W. Bush were not the only draft dodgers of war, Grover Cleveland, was accused by his Presidential Election opposing candidate of being one also, because he paid a man $150 to take his place. Herbert Hoover’s son had 2 pet alligators. He was also ...