Monday, April 9, 2012

Fun Facts

Walt Disney, the creator of Mickey Mouse, was afraid of mice.

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!

Elvis had a twin.

Steve Jobs was half Arab.

Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".

The Queen and her husband are both great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

When Prince William becomes king, he will be the forty-fourth monarch since William the Conqueror who was crowned in 1066.

One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.

President Bush and Saddam Hussein both had their shoes made by the same Italian shoemaker!

No one knows where Mozart is buried.

Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors.

King George I could not speak English!

During his lifetime, artist Vincent Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings.

Cleopatras real name was Auletes!

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