CELEBRITIES

Charlie Chaplin was so popular during the 1920s and 1930s, he received over 73,00 letters in just 2 days during a visit to London.
Warren Harding was the first US president who could drive a car.
George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in an automobile, fly on a plane, and go underwater in a submarine.
JFK was the first president born in the 20th century.
Thomas Jefferson was once given a 1,235 pound hunk of cheese, giving us the term "the big cheese."
President McKinley was shot while shaking hands with spectators.
Theodore Roosevelt's wife and mother both died on Feb. 14, 1884.
Lincoln was shot on Good Friday.
James Garfield often gave campaign speeches in German.
George Washington died after being bled by leeches.
Leslie Lynch King, Jr. is the birth name of American President Gerald. R. Ford. Ford was the son of Leslie Lynch King and his wife Dorothy Ayer Gardner, who divorced soon after the birth of their only child. When his mother married Gerald R. Ford, Sr. in 1916, he adopted the name Gerald R. Ford, Jr.
Noah Webster was referred to as "the walking question mark" during his student days at Yale.
Ellen DeGeneres was the first stand-up comedian Johnny Carson ever asked to sit on "The Tonight Show" guest couch during a first appearance.
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope in 455 years on October 17, 1978. He was inaugurated six days later in a mass at St. Peter's Square, becoming John Paul II.
Entertainers who worked in the pizza business before they became famous include Stephen Baldwin, who was a pizza parlor employee, Bill Murray, who was a pizza maker, and Jean-Claude Van Damme, who delivered pizzas. Many years back, Julia Roberts and Christie Brinkley both sold ice cream. Before she made it as a pop singer, Madonna sold doughnuts at Dunkin' Donuts. And in the burger arena, Jennifer Aniston was a waitress at a burger joint, Queen Latifah worked at Burger King, and Andie McDowell was employed by McDonald's.
Lyndon Johnson's First Family all had initials LBJ. Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, Linda Bird Johnson and Lucy Baines Johnson. And his dog, Little Beagle Johnson.
Orson Welles is buried in an olive orchard on a ranch owned by his friend, matador Antonio Ordonez in Sevilla, Spain.
The concerti on the two Voyager probes' information are performed by famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Jonathan Davids, lead singer for Korn, played in his high school bagpipe band.
John F. Kennedy's rocking chair was auctioned off for $442,000.
David Atchison, as president pro tempore of the Senate in 1849, was U-S president for one day - Sunday, March 4th - pending the inauguration of President-elect Zachary Taylor on Monday, March 5th.
Shangri-la, the presidential hideaway near Thurmont, Maryland, was renamed Camp David in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's father and grandson on May 22, 1953.
Actor Steve McQueen encouraged his karate teacher to pursue a career in acting. The teacher? Chuck Norris. McQueen is quoted as telling Norris, "If you can't do anything else' there's always acting."
First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ate three chocolate-covered garlic balls every morning. Her doctor suggested this to improve her memory.
Rap artist Sean "Puffy" Combs had his first job at age two when he modeled in an ad for Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shops.
One year, Elvis Presley paid 91% of his annual income to the IRS.
Steven Spielberg is Drew Barrymore's godfather. After seeing her nude in Playboy magazine, he sent her a blanket with a note telling her to cover herself up.
Mao Zedong, like many Chinese of his time, refused to brush his teeth. Instead, he rinsed his mouth with tea and chewed the leaves. Why brush? "Does a tiger brush his teeth?" argued Mao. As you can imagine, his teeth were green. Chairman Mao also loved to chain-smoke English cigarettes, when his doctor asked him to cut down, he explained that "smoking is also a form of deep-breathing exercise, don't you think?"
In 1977, the legendary Groucho Marx died three days after Elvis Presley died. Unfortunately, due to the fevered commotion caused by Presley's unanticipated death, the media paid little attention to the passing of this brilliant comic. Groucho, with his talented brothers (Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo), starred in irreverent films in the 1920's through 1940's, including "Duck Soup", "A Night at the Opera", "Love Happy," and "A Day at the Races." For five decades, Groucho had worked in the industry as an actor, comedian, TV game show host, and writer, and he won an Emmy in the early days of television for Outstanding Personality.

Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana.
Winston Churchill, prime minister of England during World War II, superstitiously feared January 24 because he was certain it was destined to be the day of his death. Churchill's father had died on that date. Churchill did indeed die on January 24, 1965.
Hitler was claustrophobic. They had to install a mirror in an elevator just to keep him from being scared.
Desi Arnaz's (Ricky Ricardo from "I Love Lucy") father was mayor of Santiago, Cuba, and his mother the daughter of one of the founders of Bacardi Rum. His family went into exile after the coup that brought Fulgencio Batista to power in 1934. The family made its new home in Miami, Florida. Desi's best friend in high school - Al Capone, Jr.
More than 100 descendants of Johann Sebastian Bach have been cathedral organists.
Green Bay Packers backup quarterback, Matt Hasselbeck, has been struck by lightning twice in his life.
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know I'm not blonde." -Dolly Parton
"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."—Erica Jong
Writer Director Actor Albert Brooks real name is Albert Einstein.
The Taco Bell dog is a girl. Her name is Gidget.
Howard Hughes once made half a billion dollars in one day. In 1966, he received a bank draft for $546,549,171.00 in return for his 75% holdings in TWA.
Before they became famous, many entertainers worked in sales. Among them, Johnny Cash sold appliances, Rue McClanahan sold blouses, Boris Karloff sold real estate, Leonard Nimoy sold vacuum cleaners, and George Takei sold men's ties.
Thomas Marshall (1854-1925), U.S. vice-president, once remarked "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar."
William Shatner went to Balfour Collegiate (Regina, Saskatchewan) during his high school years.
President John Tyler had fifteen children.
March 2 is Dr. Seuss' birthday.
Attila the Hun was a dwarf. Pepin the Short, Aesop, Gregory the Tours, Charles 3 of Naples, and the Pasha Hussein were all less than 3.5 feet tall.
President Grover Cleveland was a draft dodger. He hired someone to enter the service in his place, for which he was ridiculed by his political opponent, James G. Blaine. It was soon discovered, however, that Blaine had done the same thing himself.
Rita Moreno is the first and only entertainer to have received all 4 of America's top entertainment industry awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Tony and the Grammy.
Sharon Stone was the first Star Search spokesmodel.
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing his entire middle finger on his right hand.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger paid $772,500 for President John F. Kennedy's golf clubs at a 1996 auction.
The author of Roberts' Rules of Order, Col. Roberts of the U. S. Corps of Engineers, is also famous as the engineer in charge of designing the Seawall in Galveston, Texas. This Seawall was constructed after the famous hurricane of 1900 which hit Galveston, killing thousands.
The founder of JC Penny had the name of James Cash Penny.
Michael Jackson was black. :)
Dick Clark of American Bandstand fame is the host of the CBS trivia game show "Winning Lines". Clark is also the producer of rival network Fox's game show "Greed".
Whoopi Goldberg was a mortuary cosmetologist and a bricklayer before becoming an actress.
Before he became famous for his TV comedy work, the late Phil Hartman worked as a talented and respected graphic designer. In fact, he was the designer of the logo for Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
The famous Impressionist painter Claude Monet won 100,000 francs in the state lottery. The money made him financially independent.
Talk show host Montel Williams had a nose job.
Howard Hughes' original fortune came from his father's invention of an oil drill bit capable of boring through subterranean rock.
The first U.S. president to use a telephone was James Garfield.
Recording star Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle.
Shirley Temple made $1 million by the age of 10.
The first U.S. president to visit Moscow was Richard Nixon.
King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
Mickey Mouse was the first non-human to win an Oscar.
James Dean died in a Porsche Spider. [Webmaster's Note: James Dean died outside of Paso Robles, California, about a half an hour north of my home.]
Napoleon was terrified of cats.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger bought the first Hummer manufactured for civilian use in 1992. The vehicle weighed in at 6,300 lbs and was 7 feet wide.
When asked to name his favorite among all his paintings, Pablo Picasso replied "the next one."
The godfather of actress Winona Ryder was the late Dr. Timothy Leary, LSD guru of the 1960s. Winona’s father, Michael Horowitz, served at one time as Leary’s archivist and ran a bookstore called Flashback Books. Additionally, her parents were politically active intellectuals, and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg was a good family friend.
Reportedly, Virginia Woolf wrote all her books while standing.
When Errol Flynn appeared as a contestant on the mid-1950s TV quiz show The Big Surprise, he was questioned about sailing and won $30,000.
Before he catapulted to fame, Bob Dylan was paid $50 in 1960 for playing the harmonica on a Harry Belafonte album.
John F. Kennedy and Warren Harding were the only United States presidents to be survived by their fathers.
Ignce Paderewski, one of the greatest concert pianists of all time, was also premier of Poland.
Richard M. Nixon, as a young naval officer in World War II, set up the only hamburger stand in the South Pacific. Nixon's Snack Shack served free burgers and Australian beer to flight crews.
On "forever-39" Jack Benny's 80th birthday, Frank Sinatra gave him two copies of the book "Life Begins at Forty."
When Yul Brynner had hair, it was dark brown.
Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics.
President Theodore Roosevelt wrote 37 books.
Vincent Van Gogh shot and killed himself while painting "Wheatfield with Crows."
Bill Cosby was the first black to win a best actor Emmy.
Ronald Reagan's first wife was Jane Wyman.
Abraham Lincoln had a wart on his face.
Princess Grace was once on the board of 20th Century-Fox.