David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.

Henry VIII wore skirts.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark. (Hence, the light bulb?)

The head of the Roman Catholic church in the Philippines is Cardinal Sin.

"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.

Queen Elizabeth I had black teeth and lice.

Hamlet is the longest Shakespearian role.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s son invented Lincoln Logs.

The Queen's first corgi was called Susan.

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.

Cardinal Mezzofanti managed to master one hundred and fourteen different languages during his lifetime, as well as seventy-two dialects.

Adolf Hitler was a pioneer animal-rights fighter. Not only was he a genuine vegetarian, but in 1933 he passed a law for the protection of animals.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie Barbarella.

Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.

Alexander the Great's body was kept preserved in a jar of honey.

The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.

To keep her secrets safe, the Queen uses black blotting paper.

Queen Elizabeth I passed a law which forced everyone except the rich to wear a flat cap on Sundays.

The late Princess of Wales' middle name was Frances.

Robert the Bruce, the heroic Scottish King was a leper.

George II died after falling off the loo.

John D. Rockefeller gave away over five hundred million dollars during his lifetime.

Henry III of France used to hang a basket of small dogs around his neck.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

Handel wrote the score to his Messiah in just over three weeks.

Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."

Adolf Hilter's cook had a Jewish family history.

Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.

St George is the patron saint of Portugal as well as England.

Gandhi, Napolleon and Sigmund Freud all suffered from constipation.

John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his huge mansion.

George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.

After James Dean's death in a crash, teenagers paid to sit behind the wheel of the smashed car.

James Cagney never uttered the immortal line, 'You dirty rat', in any of his screen roles.

During World War Two, W.C. Fields kept US$50,000 in Hitler's Germany "in case the little bastard wins".

The Western hero, Buffalo Bill, didn't hunt buffalo, he hunted bison.

Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He refused saying he had no head for problems.

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.

Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.

Lewis Carroll wrote his books while standing up.

In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."

Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."

Attila the Hun is said to have died while making love.

Edith Piaf found it difficult to resist a man with blue eyes.

Judy Garland's original name was the distinctly unglamorous Frances Gumm.

King James I was a passenger in the first submarine.

Sir Walter Raleigh's widow carried his embalmed head around in a bag until her death.

Admiral Lord Nelson was only five feet two inches tall.

Queen Victoria never spoke English perfectly. Her mother tongue was German

Anyone stupid enough to refer to Czar Paul I's baldness was immediately flogged to death.

King Edward II was killed by a homosexual lover who shoved a red-hot poker into his anus.

A Korean child called Kim could speak four languages and do advanced calculus by the time he was five years old.

Mae West wrote a play simply entitled "Sex".

The Marquis de Sade's mother was a nun.

Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar decreed that if any of her subjects appeared in her dreams, they would be killed.

The writer, Rudyard Kipling, only ever used black ink.

Oliver Cromwell's real name was Oliver Williams.