50 Interesting Facts About Selena Gomez

1. Selena Marie Gomez is her full name.

2. She was born on 22nd July 1992.

3. Her start as an actress was when she was cast on Barney & Friends at the age of seven.

4. Her mother gave birth to her at the age of 16.

5. Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old.

6. Has four dogs – Chip, Willy, Fina and Wallace.

7. She adopted her dog named Chip from an animal shelter.

8. Selena was discovered by Disney in a nation-wide casting call.

9. Her mother, Mandy Cornett, remarried in 2006 to Brian Teefey.

10. Her name ‘Selena’ means Moon in Greek.

11. She is a huge fan of Johnny Depp.

12. Selena is an only child.

13. Selena received a Mickey Mouse charm necklace as a gift from Disney Channel.

14. Selena appeared in a few episodes of Hannah Montana as Hannah's rival, Mikayla.

15. Selena Gomez is a huge fan of Cheryl Cole and wishes to record a duet with her.

16. Selena's Twitter account is @selenagomez.

17. Selena has said in Go Girl magazine that she would like invent 'Pickle Flavored Gum'.

18. Selena's band members are Greg Garman, Joey Clement, Ethan Roberts, and Dane Forrest.

19. Selena's favourite movie genre is horror.

20. Selena's favourite fruit is mango.

21. Selena loves to surf and skateboard.

22. Selena is working on a film "What Boys Want" which is in the cinemas in 2012.

23. She starred as Grace in Monte Carlo which was released in October 2011.

24. Selena Gomez's album 'A Year Without Rain' was releasedin September 2010.

25. Selena's clothing line "Dream Out Loud" launched on 15th July 2010.

26. Selena had her first kiss when she was 12 years old with Dylan Sprouse.

27. Selena starred in "Ramona & Beezus", which was released on 22nd October 2010.

28. Halloween is one of Selena's favourite holidays.

29. She is currently dating Justin Bieber.

30. Selena's favourite Justin Bieber songs are One Time, Love Me, and Never Say Never.

31. Her Zodiac Sign is Cancer.

32. Selena and Justin Bieber gave a newly-wed couple a wedding to remember — the duo crashed their wedding in Malibu and posed for the camera with the bride and groom.

33. Selena hasn't wear her purity ring since shes been with Justin Bieber.

34. During the National Council of La Raza's ALMA Awards, Selena Gomez won the award for comedy for her performance in Wizards of Waverly Place.

35. Her favourite sport is basketball.

36. She took part in Disney Channel's Earth Day celebration.

37. Selena has a driving licence

38. She drives a 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid.

39. Selena and Justin first met in 2009, when Justin's manager called Selena's mother, who's also her manager, to set up a meeting between the two.

40. Selena Gomez protects her voice by drinking olive oil!

41. She and best friend Demi Lovato have matching guitar pick necklaces.

42. Her previous relationship was with Nick Jonas of The Jonas Brothers.

43. For her 2011 music video "Love You Like A Love Song", Gomez had horses spray-painted pink. This led to accusations from PETA and singer Pink about the treatment of the animals.

44. In June 2011, she released her album "When The Sun Goes Down".

45. She went to Danny Jones Middle School located in Texas.

46. Her favourite band is Paramore.

47. She is named after the famous Tejano singer Selena.

48. Selena's Facebook is: Facebook.com/Selena.

49. Selena has over one million subscribers on YouTube.

50. Her shoe size is 7, as of 2012.

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Top 5 Unpleasant Facts About John Lennon

5. Politically Clueless

People tend to see Lennon as some sort of divine guru of peace and love because of his political activities in the early 1970s. The truth is that most of Lennon’s reputation as a political activist is based on photos of him with various ‘60s radicals and his own press statements. He never actually did anything whatsoever of note in the political realm, and most of the radicals he cultivated thought he was an ignorant poseur. The few things he did actually do, like giving money and publicity to violent groups like the Black Panthers, are nothing to be proud of.

4. Follower Not a Leader

This is true of pretty much all the Beatles, but with Lennon it’s particularly obvious. In the beginning he was following the American rhythm and blues tradition with a smattering of Roy Orbison-style pop ballads. Later he’s obviously trying to channel Bob Dylan. Then he’s aping the psychedelic stylings of the California drug bands. After that, he gloms on to avant-garde, John Cage-influenced (above) modern art music. Truth be told, there wasn’t much Lennon did that hadn’t been done before by more original and talented artists.

3. Mindless Conformist

Despite his reputation as a freethinker following his own path, Lennon was an obvious case of someone desperate to fit in. Yes, he was trying to fit in with groups that were considered non-conformist, but conformism is conformism. Right from the beginning, Lennon was posing. Back in the day, the teddy-boy look was the in thing, so he shows up in leather jackets and a pompadour. Then its the cute pop look. Then the psychedelic hippie thing. Then the angry avant-garde hipster. It never ends. Everything about Lennon, from his music and politics to the way he dressed, was an attempt to fit in with sub- or counter-cultures that already existed.

2. Desperate for Money and Fame

As much he liked to pretend to be a misunderstood artist following his own uncompromising vision, the truth is that Lennon pursued fame and fortune from the beginning. Even in the early days when the Beatles were a struggling bar band, he used to extol them by saying they would go “to the topper most of the popper most.” He happily went along with the Beatles’ haircuts, suits, and calculated image; as well as the band’s innumerable media appearances; only denouncing it all as shallow and empty later in life, when he was cultivating an avant-garde reputation. His relentless antics with Yoko Ono in the early ‘70s now seem to be such a blatant plea for attention that one wonders how anyone took them seriously back then. And of course, he never turned down any of the fat paychecks that came his way as a result of his fame and success.

1. Hypocrite

This is the toughest one and the hardest to say in public, mainly because Lennon’s murderer (above) cited it as his primary motive, but that doesn’t make it any less true: Lennon was a perfect example of someone who lived by the hypocritical dictum of “do as I say, not as I do.” As his critics sometimes point out, all you have to do is go straight to his songs. The man who sang “imagine no possessions” lived a millionaire’s life in a posh New York hotel. The man who sang “imagine no religion” was obsessed with every spiritual and New Age fad that came his way, including Hindu meditation, the I-Ching, and astrology of all kinds. The man who sang “all you need is love” was a bitter, violent, and angry man who abused his family and friends. The man who praised having “nothing to kill or die for” helped finance and publicize radical groups who extolled the use of violence. Quite literally everything his fans see personified in the icon of John Lennon are ideals the man himself either couldn’t or wouldn’t live up to.

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10 Astounding Facts About the Human Brain

Here are ten remarkable facts about our most complex organ.

A cross-section of the human brain

1. The human brain is so sophisticated it takes nearly 20 years to mature

2.In the womb, humans grow 8,000 new brain cells every second 

3.By the time humans are born they have all the brain cells they will ever need 

4.The human brain is the “most sophisticated thing” in the known universe 

5.New-born babies can recognise their mother’s face after just a few hours 

6.Babies can see in the womb but only in black and white. However their eyes are sensitive enough to detect the dim light passing through their mother’s belly 

7.Humans blink up to 20 times every minute. Each blink lasts around half a second. But add them together, and humans are living in the dark for more than an hour every day 

8.Each brain cell will make, on average, 10,000 connections with other brain cells 

9.Learning to balance and co-ordinate your body is so complex the area of the brain devoted to this task contains as many cells as the rest of the brain put together 

10.Young divers in Thailand have taught their eyes to focus underwater by 

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20 facts about McDonald's

01. In 1970, Americans spent on this meal $ 6 billion a year in 2001 - more than 110 billion is larger than for higher education, computers, cars. More than books, movies, magazines, newspapers, videos and music - together. 

02. The average American eats three hamburgers and four servings of potatoes every week.  

03. One in eight U.S. workers had worked in the "McDonald's."  

04. "McDonald's" consumption of pork, beef and potatoes, more than anyone else in the U.S., chicken - a little less than fast food "Kentucky Chicken frayed."

05. Especially for the "McDonald's" breed of chickens bred with huge breasts, "Mr. MD." Of white breast meat is a popular dish on the menu, "Chicken McNuggets." It changed the whole industry production of chicken meat. The chicken was sold not as a whole as 20 years ago, and cut into pieces.

06. Golden arches "of McDonald's," according to psychologist Louis Cheskin - Freudian symbol. It is "a huge pair of breasts," McDonald's mother.

07. Two-thirds of all employees of fast food chains do not have 20 years. They work in a very small salary, performing simple operations. In 1958, the "McDonald's" had the first 75 pages of instructions, describing in detail the procedure for all the actions of cooking and ways of communicating with customers. Today, in this book, 750 pages, and it is called the "bible of McDonald's."

08. Staff turnover in the fast food - up to 400%. A typical worker goes from the cafe after 4 months. Among the employees a lot of teenagers from poor families and immigrants, especially from Latin America, who know in English only the name of dishes on the menu. 

09. Low salary and lack of labor protection is replaced by the creation of "Team spirit" of the young workers. For a long time managers "McDonald's" learn how to properly praise subordinates and create the illusion of indispensability. It's cheaper than raise wages.

10.Injuries among the younger staff at two times higher than in adults. Each year, crippled in their cafes 200,000 people. 

11. A young slave labor loves to joke. Videos in fast food in Los Angeles have shown that teenagers sneeze into the food, lick your fingers, pick their nose, put out cigarettes on the products, drop them on the floor. In May 2000, three teenagers from the "Burger King" in New York were arrested for being about 8 months of spit and urinated in the food. In mixers live cockroaches, and mice swarm at night left to defrost hamburger ... It is known that many workers do not eat fast food cafe in his home until it is cooked for a portion. 

12. Taste the potatoes from the "McDonald's" everybody likes. Previously, he depended entirely on the fat in which it is roasted. For decades it was a mixture of 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. In 1990, the people turned against cholesterol, fast food and switched to 100% vegetable oil. But the taste, it was required to leave the same! Today, if you ask for the "McDonald's" information on the composition of dishes at the end of a long list of modest look "natural flavoring". This is a universal explanation for why everything is so tasty fast food.

13. Recipes potatoes and hamburgers can not be found in cookbooks and in the writings of "Food Technology" and "engineering of food." What we eat there, over the past 40 years has changed more than in the previous 40 000. And the taste, and smell of hamburgers and the like is done in huge chemical plants in New Jersey.

14. About 90% of all the products we buy, have been pre-processing. Conservation and frost kill the natural flavor of food. For the past 50 years, neither we nor the fast food could not survive without chemical plants.

15. In addition to the taste of products for "McDonald's" company "International flavors Fragransez End" makes the smell of six of the 10 most popular spirits of the world, including "Beautiful," "Estee Lauder" and "Tresor" "Lankoma." Also smells of soap, dishwashing detergents, shampoos, etc. All of this is the result of a process. Shave you're actually the same as you have for dinner.

16. Work at the factory has become the most dangerous in America, only the official figure is 40,000 injuries per year. U.S. meat plants process up to 400 carcasses per hour, whereas in Europe more than 100. Because of the low wages here are working alone immigrants.

17. Cows fed the farmers how they should be, with grass. Cows are designed for large fastfudovskoy grinder, three months before the killing of huge herds are driven to a special area where they are fed grain and anabolics.

18.. One cow can eat more than 3000 pounds of grain and 400 pounds of weight gain. The meat in this case becomes very fat, just right for stuffing.

19. The increase in grain prices has worsened an already dire situation. Prior to 1997 - the first call of mad cow disease - 75% of U.S. cattle ate the remains of sheep, cows and even dogs and cats from animal shelters. During a 1994 U.S. cows have eaten three million pounds of chicken manure. After 1997, the diet supplements were from pigs, horses and chickens, along with sawdust from the chicken coops.

20. Obesity - the second leading cause of death after smoking in the United States. Every year on his 28 000 people die. 2 times increased levels of obesity in England, which most Europeans love fast food. In Japan, with its marine and vegetable fat diet had almost no - they have now become like everyone else.

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