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'Charlize Theron.' The girl who starred in 'Mighty joe young, 'The Italian job, 'The Huntsman' Hancock', along side Will Smith is a South African.

Simon Kingberg who produced Deadpool was paid $40,000,000. About #18,000,000,000.

In other words, he was paid eighteen billion naira.

American movie company '20th Century Fox' was first named '20th Century' and it was founded in 1915.

One year after the declaration of World War one.

It is 101 years old and still counting...

Covenant University owned by Bishop David Oyedepo is the only private university to be among top ten in Nigeria.

Yes, he has two universities (Landmark and Covenant University ) and they are among the top 20 in Nigeria.

Informative.

The science fiction movie 'James Cameron's Avatar' grossed 2.788 billion dollars and the historical romantic disaster movie 'Titanic' grossed 2.187 billion dollars.

He directed the first movie (Titanic) that broke the world record and stood till his second movie (Avater) broke the record of the first movie.

James Cameron directed both movies.

He is one of the most sought after Directors in the world.

'James Cameron's Avater' took almost ten years to produce.

It was to be produced in 1999.

Unbelievably the technology as at then wasn't compatible with his vision or it wasn't what he wanted. The film came out in 2009.

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond movies :-

Moonraker(1974)

Diamonds Are Forever(1971)

Goldfinger(1964)

is a Nigerian.

Cool

Sophie Okonedo is an actress that has recieved O.B.E (Officer of the British Empire) one of the highest awards in Britain.

She's Nigerian.

Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church a.k.a Winners Chapel, is the richest pastor in the WORLD. From Australia to Canada to South Korea.

He is reportedly worth $150 million. That's about #57.6 billion.

His church first started in Kwara state before moving to Ogun state where he's currently based.

Christ Embassy runs three TV channels. They are:-

1. LoveWorld TV,
2. LoveWorld SAT and
3. LoveWorld Plus

They are the first 24-Hour Christian channels in Africa to be broadcasted to the world.

The USS PUEBLO was captured in North Korea on 23 January 1968. It was as U.S navy spy ship that was close to North Korea during the cold war.

It is the only U.S Navy ship that is recorded as active as of 2016 but unused. North Korea is currently using the ship as a museum.

Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo is the pastor of Abuja based Commonwealth of Zion Assembly was spotted posing with his luxury Porsche Targa 911 4s car, outside his church, on Saturday, June 25. He is the first to own such car in Nigeria.

Perfectdanny:
Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo is the pastor of Abuja based Commonwealth of Zion Assembly was spotted posing with his luxury Porsche Targa 911 4s car, outside his church, on Saturday, June 25. He is the first to own such car in Nigeria.

op, av you listened to any of this man's preaching... the man can boast!!! well he prays wella sha... buh e too dey talk.

sexymoma:
op, av you listened to any of this man's preaching... the man can boast!!! well he prays wella sha... buh e too dey talk.

I also know he has a private jet. All crew members of his jet are members of his church.

I'm yet to listen to him though.

Joshua Oluwafemi Olaseni is a heavyweight boxer that has never lost a game in his professional career.

He is the sixth best heavyweight boxer in the world.

The dude is Nigerian.

It doesn't end

The 2013 Disney Animated Musical Comedy Fantasy drama film ''Frozen'' is the highest grossing cartoon of all times with an estimated profit of $1.276 billion.

Zhewei wang who played Chang in the 2010 movie Karate Kid starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith(Will Smith's son) beat approximately ten thousand contestant during the audition for the role.

The American couple and songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Lopez wrote ''Let it go'' for the animated movie ''Frozen.''

The song won Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards and two Grammy Awards at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards.

The U.S once paid dues to countries like Turkey, Algeria, Morroco to allow the country's merchant ships to pass without problems. If they didn't pay, their ships would be seized and their sailors captured.

That's the picture of an American paying dues to Dey of Algiers in 1800.

The U.S Navy was revived in 1794 just to fight pirates.

It was disbanded 1778 before being brought back.

It is the largest navy in the world consist of 3000+ aircrafts and helicopters, 400+ ships, 370,000+ sailors, 12+ aircraft carriers, 50+ submarines.

It is a combination of 13 navies of different countries.

It also has more fighter pilots than the U.S airforce.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 lightening stealth multi-role fighter jet is the most expensive military machine ever made on the Planet.

With an estimated cost of $165 billion. Thats almost the G.D.P of 10 West African countries.

Buying a Jet like this will gulp 108 million dollars. That's #48,600,000,000. In other words forty eight billion, six hundred million naira without an engine.

That is the G.D.P of some countries.

The Hong Kong Police Force is the largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong.

It is the world's second, and Asia's first, police agency to operate with a modern policing system. It was formed on 1 May 1844 by the British Hong Kong government with a strength of 32 officers.

The 2010 fantasy action movie ''Avater: The Last Airbender,'' was criticised because NO BLACK ACTORS STARRED IN IT.

Though it was based on the cartoon of the same movie ''where there are also no black characters''

John Boyega who played ''finn the stormtrooper'' in the 2015 sci-fi space epic American movie ''Star Wars-The force Awakens''

is a Nigerian and he's 24 years old.

He was paid $15 million for his role in the movie. In other words, he earned seven hundred and fifty million naira.

Harrison Ford was paid 16 million pounds for his role as Han Solo in the same movie above.

In other words, he was paid six billion eight hundred and ninety two million naira.

Daniel Craig. The James Bond star made a cameo appearance as a stormtrooper in the 2015 space sci-fi epic American movie. ''Star wars-The Force Awakens.''

The Nigerian pop star Seyi Shay is a British and Nigerian citizen.

George Lucas, The founder and previous owner of mega film industry Lucasfilm sold the company to Disney for a whooping sum of $4.06 billion in 2011. You do the maths yourself.