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• The first couple seen in bed together was Mary Kay & Johnny Steen (Source: snopes.com)
• Charles Dickens slept facing North. He thought it improved his writing.
• A golden razor removed from King Tut’s Tomb was still sharp enough to be used.
• The house where Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was replaced with a hamburger stand.
• There was a person that paid $14,000 for the bra Marilyn Monroe wore in Some Like It Hot.
• The first American to have indoor plumbing was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1840.
• Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant “plenty of excrement.”
• Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with “rejoice.”
• Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate roasted turkey from foil packets as their first meal on the moon.
• Pamela Anderson is Canada’s Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversiary of Canada’s independence.
• The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
• Mary Todd Lincoln claimed she was haunted during her life, and sewed money into clothes to foil the invisible thieves.
• Lee Harvey Oswald’s cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
• Samuel Colt, the famous gun maker, paid the equivalent of $400,000 in today’s money for his wife’s wedding dress and accessories.
• David Prouse (the man inside the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars) spoke all of his lines in the first movie. He did not know that his voice was being dubbed over with that of James Earl Jones until he saw the finished movie.

Japan earthquake and Tsunami

            

Earthquake and Tsunami March 11, 2011 Japan,Hits After 8.9 Quake.Japan's most powerful earthquake since records began has struck the north-east coast, triggering a massive tsunami.Cars, ships and buildings were swept away by a wall of water after the 8.9-magnitude tremor, which struck about 400km (250 miles) north-east of Tokyo. A state of emergency has been declared at a nuclear power plant, where pressure has exceeded normal levels.Officials say 350 people are dead and about 500 missing, but it is feared the final death toll will be much higher.In one ward alone in Sendai, a port city in Miyagi prefecture, 200 to 300 bodies were found.The quake was the fifth-largest in the world since 1900 and nearly 8,000 times stronger than the one which devastated Christchurch, New Zealand, last month, said scientists.