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Eminem
  • Eminem is in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest selling hip hop artist
  • Eminem originally wanted to become a comic book artist
  • Eminem used to be called “Mickey” because he had big ears that looked like mickey mouse
  • Eminem repeated 9th grade 3 times before dropping out

Amy Winehouse
  • Amy Winehouse was kicked out of school for piercing her nose at the age of 13
  • Amy Winehouse died at the same age as Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain… the 27 club? Is it a fact?

CD
  • When the cd was invented, it was decided that a cd should be long enough to hold beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was precisely 72 minutes

Mozart
  • Mozart’s full name was Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart
  • Mozart married the sister of the woman he had unsuccessfully courted several years earlier
  • He began composing and performing music at the age of six
  • Mozart died at the age of 35
  • He was an avid traveller. He spent a third of his life travelling
  • Mozart’s grave was desecrated and dug up to make room for more graves
  • Mozart’s skull was presented to the Salzburg Mozerteum by a grave robber. Nobody can confirm the skull belonged to the maestro

Twinkle twinkle
  • Twinkle twinkle little star has been around for over 200 years
  • The song twinkle twinkle little star is a combination of an English poem “The Star” and a French tune “Ah! vous  dirai-je, Maman”
  • In the French tune, the original lyrics told the story of a girl telling her mother that she was being seduced by a man called “Silvandre”
  • Mozart has also used the tune of twinkle twinkle little star as inspiration for 12 variations of his own work

Led Zeppelin
  • Led Zeppelin deliberately misspelled their first part of their name so people would not mispronounce it

Sting
  • Sting was a high school teacher

Happy birthday
  • Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song “Happy Birthday”

Elvis
  • Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died. Elvis’ middle name Aaron is in his honour
  • In 1971, Elvis was appointed an honourary FBI agent by Nixon before Nixon’s resignation.Thanx Spike

fish
  • The Burramundy, a fish, grows up as a male, but after 2 years or so, it turns into a female to breed. (i think papaya(papua?) trees are the same)
  • Most marine fish can survive in a tank filled with human blood (who even tried this?)
  • The Nile catfish swim upside down
  • A carp might be able to learn to differentiate music (blues from classical)
  • The drum fish hears with its air bladder which transmits sound into their ear bone otherwise known as the “Weberian apparatus.”