Damon Baird's Voice from Gears of War is also the voice of Disney characters!
Fred Tatasciore is a prolific voice actor with over 327 voice credits to his name. Most recently, he provides the voice for the cynical, sarcastic and ultra-intelligent protagonist of the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment, Damon Baird. While Baird is tough and intimidating, Tatasciore has worked on projects that are far more warm and fuzzy than Gears of War. In fact, he's well known for providing voices for characters in the Disney classics Tangled, Enchanted and The Princess and the Frog.
There was a child prodigy who spoke his first words at 4-months old and graduate college at the age of 10!
His name is Michael Kearney and for a while he had the youngest postgraduate ever. Michael was diagnosed with ADHD but his parents refused the medication. He spoke his first words when he was 4 months old. At 6 months, he told his pediatrician "I have a left ear infection," and learned how to read at 10 months.
When he was 4, he was given a multiple choice diagnostic test for the Johns Hopkins precocious math program. He didn't study for it, and got a perfect score.
He graduated high school when he was 6, and then enrolled in Junior college, where he graduated with an Associate of Science in Geology at the age of 8. He then went on to the University of Alabama, where he got a bachelor's in anthropology at the age of 10. Then, at the age of 14, he got a masters in biochemistry.
He's been a contestant in some game shows, including Gold Rush, where he won $1,000,000. He was also on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but there he only won $25,000.
Not a single person ordered pizza from Domino's during the verdict of OJ Simpson!
The pizza meter, for example, discovered that recently Americans are becoming more conservative based on how many people answered the door naked and the fact that the number two most given fake name was Virginia Gingrich, the mother of house speaker Newt.
They were also able to determine that the most popular underwear is Calvin Klein briefs for those that order pizza. They say that during the reading of the OJ verdict calls spiked 15 minutes until just before the jury began reading, yet when they began speaking not a single person in all of America ordered pizza!
The real Christopher Robin HATED Winnie-the-Pooh!
Christopher Robin Milne was the only child of British writer A. A. Milne, most famous for his children’s series Winnie-the-Pooh, and after the death of both of his parents released two books detailing just how much he despised his father for including him in the stories.
The 10 most interesting facts about the London Olympics!
10. Girl Power: The 2012 Olympics will have 2 significant milestones for female athletes. It's the first Olympics where every country has at least 1 female athlete. Also, Female Boxing was included this year, which means that every sport in the games will have male and female competitors.
9. The opening ceremony is based on William Shakespeare's The Tempest. The organizers have named the ceremony "Isles of Wonder" and it is taken from a speech given by Caliban in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Academy award winner Danny Boyle will serve as the artistic director. Over 20,000 volunteers are working on it!
8. The London Olympic stadium is the lightest stadium ever built. Not just that, but they also used 2,500 tons of steel tubing that was recycled from old gas pipelines. That's a pretty green stadium!
7. There's going to be over 20,000 members of the media covering the event. The International Broadcast Centre that will house them during the games is huge: the size of six full size football pitches.
6. More than half the world will be watching. The organizers of the game estimate that about 4 billion people will tune in to watch the games.
5. London will be the first city to host the Olympics for a third time. They hosted the Olympics in 1908 and 1948. Although this distinction is only a technicality. Athens has also hosted 3 Olympic games, but one of them, the 1902 Athens Intercalated Olympic Games weren't counted as an official Olympic event.
3. The games might include a Spice Girls reunion. The Olympic games will officially end on August 12. It's traditional that the mayor of the host city hands over the games to the mayor of the next host city (in this case, Rio de Janeiro). It's heavily rumored that the closing ceremony will feature the first Spice Girls reunion since 2008.
2. Even though Adidas is the official apparel sponsor, Nike features prominently in the games! Not Nike the brand, but rather the Goddess of Sport. She's going to be engraved in front of every medal given out during the games. Ironically, Nike just came out with an ad poking fun at the Olympics. Watch it here.
1. The games cost almost $15 BILLION. The final estimated cost for the Olympic games was increased from £2.4 billion to £9.3 billion. That's 3.8x the cost! The reason for this was because London had to invest heavily in the Olympic venues and other infrastructure expenses. In fact, the Contingency Fund, for any unexpected expenses, was set at £2.7 billion. That means that the unexpected costs ended up being costlier than they originally expected the whole thing to be!
