MelissaA
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Shilpa Karhik
Charles Manson a Scientologist Plus MORE!
February 27th 2007 00:25
Pamela Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, as she was the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada’s independence.
Winston Churchill, one of England's greatest politicians, historians and statesmen, was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The 3 most well known western names in China are Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
The Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
The bra Marilyn Monroe wore in "Some Like It Hot" sold for $14,000.
If you think that person was mad for spending that amount of money on a bra, then try this:
Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
Charles Dickens always slept facing towards the North. He believed it helped him to write better.
The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.
The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840.
David Prouse who was the body inside Darth Vader in Star Wars, originally said all of the lines in the fiirst movie. He did not know that his voice was going to be dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw the final cut.
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Comment by Damo
Comment by MelissaA
Fun Facts
Comment by Andrea
V8 Supercar Pitstop
Maybe I should try this ...!!
A. x
Comment by David
The Manson bit? One of my favourite True-Crime novels is Vincent Bugliosi's 'Helter Skelter' ...
It's a long time since I read it ... but I do not recall him mentioning that ...
One of the things I most remember about it? ... Manson killed Sharon Tate (Roman Polanski's girlfriend at the time) and how Polanski later had to leave the US (due to having an underage new girlfriend) ...
And, how angry Polanski was with the US Government for championing Manson as a cult hero and treating him like a paedophile ...
There was a great quote in an Adelaide newspaper a few years ago by the father of a murdered teenage girl (on behalf of him and his wife ...
It made the front page ...
It was:
David ...
Comment by Mrs M
Mum's Word
That just says so much.
Love & stuff
Mrs M
Comment by Francis
Passionate Apathy
So even the $cientologists have a cut-off limit.
Appropriate for a politician.
Some boobs will pay anything...
They didn't think a Brit would sound scary enough- though it does help lend an air of menace to CNN.