The voice actors of SpongeBob and Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.
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Albert Einstein was married to his distant cousin, Elsa Einstein.
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time. Polygyny is when a man is married to more than one woman, and Polyandry is when a woman is married to more than one husband.
The actors who voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life. Russi Taylor (Minnie) and Wayne Allwine (Mickey) tied the knot in 1991.
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse were married in real life. Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, married Russi Taylor – the voice of Minnie, in 1991. Allwine voiced Mickey for 32 years, while Taylor voiced Minni from 1986 until she died in 2019.
A Japanese man married a video game character in 2009. This guy took cuffing season to a whole other level: Sal 9000 lived the gamer’s dream when he “married” Nene Anegasaki over livestream.
Edgar Allan Poe married his thirteen-year-old cousin. Edgar Allan Poe was 27 when he got married to his 13-year-old cousin. Now that’s one of the useless facts that are a lot to unpack.
John married Helen Taylor in 1951, a widow with a daughter from her previous marriage.
In 1985, List married Delores Miller, a widow he met at a church social event.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s voices got married in real life. Wayne Allwine (Mickey) and Russi Taylor (Minnie) were married from 1986 to 2019.
The people who voiced Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor, were married in real life!
Frederick Douglass’s birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. When he married he chose the last name Douglass after the hero clan in Sir Walter Scott’s famous poem, Lady of the Lake.
Cleopatra was Queen of Egypt from 50 to 30 B.C. She came into power at 12 years old and married two of her brothers during her reign. It sounds crazy today, but this was fairly common practice back then!
Genghis Khan strategically married off his daughters to expand his empire. Genghis Khan only gained his title by the time he reached his forties, at which point he had more than ten children. Khan married his daughters to allied kings, who he would send out to war. His new sons-in-law rarely returned alive, and his daughters took control of their new kingdoms for Khan.
Tom Cruise got divorced from each of his three ex-wives when they reached the age of 33. Tom Cruise’s first wife was Mimi Rogers, he parted ways with her in 1989. Later he married Nicole Kidman, but they were not meant to be as they divorced in 2001. Cruise got married once again in 2006 to Katie Holmes but split with her just six years later in 2012. Fun Fact: Each of Tom Cruise’s ex-wives is successively eleven years younger than the last.
Only one married couple has ever been sent to space. Mark Lee and Jan Davis met during their astronaut training programs but decided to keep their relationship secret. NASA had an informal policy against sending out married couples on missions. Nine months before their mission, they got married, and by the time NASA found out it was too late to begin training replacements. Instead, they made their informal policy formal to prevent it from happening again!
The author of the James Bond novels wrote the first book to take his mind off the fear of getting married. Ian Fleming was a bachelor of 44 years when he wrote Casino Royale in 1952, the first in a long series about the devilishly handsome British spy. Many years later, Fleming wrote in his memoirs that he was so terrified at the concept of finally getting married that he wrote his first Bond novel. Some authors doubt this dismissal, claiming he simply wrote it as a quick cash job, but it makes a hell of a good story!
In Texas, it’s legal to be married by proxy (have a stand-in) if you’re deployed in another country and can’t make your ceremony.
It’s prohibited to get married in Nebraska if you have a sexually transmitted infection.
Until 1877, the professors of Oxford University were not allowed to get married.