People facts
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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 sharks
There are about 350 different types of sharks, but researchers think there are other sharks that haven't been discovered yet! Most sharks live for about 25 years, while some of them can live to be a 100 years too. More people are killed by bee stings than by shark ...
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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 ...
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Interesting facts about Barack Obama
He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball. He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a ...
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Interesting facts about babies
Babies are born with swimming abilities and can naturally hold their breath. However, they shortly lose this instinct. Newborn babies have an acute sense of smell, which enables them to recognise the natural scent, or pheromones, from their mother's body. Babies have a define preference for high contrast images, ...
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Interesting Facts About William Shakespeare
There is something about Shakespeare that even the most brilliant writers of today's times are unable to match. William Shakespeare will always remain a supreme name in the world of English literature. Shakespeare was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, ...