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Strange Celebrity Facts & Stories
Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds
Paris Hilton has size 11 feet! “All those super cute shoes like Guccis and Monolos look like clown shoes on me”
Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the first woman he fell in love with. “I used to leave Smarties, the Irish equivalent of M&Ms, under my pillow with a little note saying, “I know you’re dead but these are very tasty and you should come and have a few. i wont tell anyone”
Brittany Murphy claims she started speaking at 4 and a half months. She also says she was a very “energetic child, really bubbly…extremely precocious”
In a high school talent show, Matt Damon performed the talking heads’ “Burning Down the House”
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world.
The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT, New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941.Bulova paid $9 for that first TV spot. Bulova also was the first watch in space.
STAR TREK’s Captain James T. Kirk’s middle name is Tiberius.
The first film animation was “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” made in 1906 by American J. Stuart Blacton.
The longest kiss in a movie is in Andy Warhol’s Kiss. Rufus Collins and Naomi Levine kissed for the entire 50 minutes of the movie.
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