Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2002 Shania Twain's "Come On Over" album was certified for shipments of 19 million units?

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Here are 5 little known truths about Shania Twain.

  • She was born on August 28, 1965 in Windsor , Ontario Canada and christened Eilleen Regina Edwards. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler. Her mother remarried a man named Jerry Twain.
  • As a child Shania used to play on the Mattagami Indian Reserve where she was taught how to hunt, to snare rabbits and track in the forests.
  • As a kid, two of Shania's teeth never grew - so she had terrible gaps between them.
  • She made her first TV appearance on the Tommy Hunter Show in Canada when she was 12; she was billed as Ellie Twain.
  • She was just 22 years old when her mother and step-father were killed in a car crash.

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