- On November 1, 1987, her mother and stepfather were killed in a car crash, and she became the legal guardian of her younger siblings, putting her musical career on hold to raise her family.
- The album, tour and merchandising for the album "Come On Over" (1999) made over $40,000,000 in Australia alone, where it still remains one of the longest charting albums in Australia.
- Her music video Shania Twain: Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1999) paid tribute to Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love (1986) reversing the gender roles, with Twain fronting a band of five male models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard (as Palmer fronted a band of five female models playing guitars, drums and a keyboard).
- Shy as a child, was a tomboy and hated performing. Started writing songs when she was eight years old.
- In 2004, Twain retired from performing and retreated to her home in Switzerland.
- Has sold 19 million copies of her album "Come On Over" (1999) domestically.
- As a child, she often was sent to school without lunch because her parents couldn't afford groceries.
- In 2003, she contracted Lyme disease which affected her voice. In order to regain her voice from the effects of dysphonia, which was caused by disease, she underwent multiple invasive surgeries.
- Considers Gladys Knight one of her biggest influences.
- Her German Shepherd dog Tim is named after her hometown of Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
- She has English, Irish, French-Canadian and Northern Irish ancestry. She was raised in the Ojibway Indian culture by her stepfather, a full-blooded Ojibway Native.
- Has scored seven No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine's country singles chart. Her biggest hit is the country-pop smash "You're Still the One" (1998, No. 1 country, No. 2 Hot 100); the song won Grammy Awards for Best Country song and Best Female Country Performance.
- Her other country No. 1 hits: "Any Man of Mine" (1995); "(If You're Not in it for Love) I'm Outta Here!", "You Win My Love" and "No One Needs to Know" (1996); and "Honey I'm Home" (1998). Other big hits include "Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under" and "The Woman in Me (Needs the Man in You)" (1995); "Don't Be Stupid", "From This Moment On" and "That Don't Impress Me Much" (all 1998, the second a duet with country singer Bryan White); and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman", "You've Got a Way" and "Come On Over" (all 1999).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on June 2, 2011.
- Has a son, Eja (pronounced "Asia") D'Angelo Lange (b. August 12, 2001), with her ex-husband Mutt Lange.
- She owns a cottage near the town of Huntsville in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada.
- Named #30 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.
- Her album "Up!" (2002) sold two million copies in the United States during its first month of release.
- Her nephew, whose last name is also Twain, got his big break in entertainment when featured on Canada's Much Music cable station in 2004.
- Listed in People Weekly magazine's "Most Intriguing People" list (1995).
- Her biggest country hit, "Love Gets Me Every Time" (1997), became the first country No. 1 released by a female country artist to spend five weeks atop Billboard's country chart since Dolly Parton's hit "Here You Come Again" (1977).
- She was awarded the OC (Officer of the Order of Canada) by the Governor General of Canada on November 18, 2005 for her services to music.
- Named the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year in 1999. She also received the CMA's International Achievement Award that same year.
- Won three 2003 Juno Awards: Juno Fan Choice Award, Artist of the Year and Country Recording of the Year.
- She was awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario on June 25, 2003.
- Named #39 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list.
- Ranked #15 on VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.
- (April 6, 2003) Hosted the 2003 Juno Awards (Canadian Grammy Awards) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Named #33 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
- Her name is correctly pronounced 'Shu-nye-ah'.
- Is one of only four native Canadians to reach the peak of Billboard's country chart since its inception in 1944. The other top hit makers are Hank Snow (who first turned the trick in 1950), Anne Murray (first No. 1 hit in 1974), and Terri Clark (first No. 1 hit in 1999).
- Had a poster of Tony Danza on her wall when she was a little girl.
- Shares a birthday with LeAnn Rimes.
- She returned to music in 2011, with her "Shania: Still the One" residency in Las Vegas from 2012-2014; "Rock This Country" tour in 2015; "Now" tour in 2018; and "Let's Go!" residency in Las Vegas since 2019. She released her fifth studio album, "Now," in 2017.
- Uses her married (and legal) name Eilleen Lange in the credits for her latest CD, titled "Up" (2002). This is her first release since multi-platinum effort "Come On Over" (1999).
- Her stepfather and mother's common headstone bears the family name "Twain" underscored by the names "Jerry 1947-1987" and "Sharon 1945-1987" with the epitaph - Together Forever.
- (January 26, 2003) Performed at the National Football League's Super Bowl half-time show where this was well known that she had been lip-synching the song.
- Is a vegetarian and was voted "sexiest vegetarian alive" by PETA.
- Inducted into the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame in 2005.
- Despite popular belief, she is not a direct descendent of Mark Twain, neither of them were even born with the surname.
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