FACTOID FRIDAY

"Today would have been Michael Jackson's birthday so here are some random facts about the "King of pop.

• Michael Jackson’s favorite animated character was Pinocchio
  
• When he was a child his favorite books included Rip Van Winkle and The Old Man and the Sea
  
• Saint Vincent, an island in the Caribbean, once issued Michael Jackson stamps
  
• The singer once owned a boa constrictor called “Muscles”
  
• Saint Vincent, an island in the Caribbean, once issued Michael Jackson stamps
  

• The singer once owned a boa constrictor called “Muscles”
  
• He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (one for himself and one as part of the Jackson Five)
  
• In 1984 he won eight Grammy’s – the joint highest amount ever won by one person in a single year
  
• He gave his first public performance at the age of 5 singing Climb Every Mountain