Famous People Facts

Stephen King, teacher:
Just imagine if your teacher was going home at night and writing horror novels and screenplays? It might make you turn in your homework on time, or stop passing notes, at least. Stephen King � the legendary writer behind Carrie and The Shining� taught high school English in Hampden, Maine, writing during the weekends and in the evenings.

Mike Rowe, opera singer: Mike Rowe is best known in the U.S. for hosting the Discovery Channel's show Dirty Jobs, but if you listen carefully, he's also the narrator behind lots of commercials, TV specials and documentaries. But that strong, gravely voice isn't just great for speaking. Before TV, Rowe sang with the Baltimore Opera.

1. As a teenager, Obama took drugs including marijuana and cocaine
2. Obama was known as "O'Bomber" at high school for his skill at basketball
3. Barack Obama collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
4. Obama's name means "one who is blessed" in Swahili
5. In 1967, Barack Obama's mother married her second husband, Lolo ("Crazy") Soetoro from Indonesia. Lolo practiced a form of Islam that incorporated ideas from other belief systems.

Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.

Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, was an ophthalmologist by profession!

Justin Timberlake's half-eaten french toast sold for over $3,000 on eBay!

More people have seen David Copperfield perform live than any other performer in the world.

Sandra Bullock is allergic to horses!