Winnie the Pooh Facts

Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, regularly picks up the phone and calls dying children in hospitals — in character. No cameras. No publicity. Just Pooh Bear on the line, talking to a sick kid who needs something to smile about. He's been doing it for years.

Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear. Harry Colebourn, a Canadian soldier headed to WWI, bought an orphaned cub for $20 at a train stop in 1914 and named her Winnipeg. When he shipped out to France, he left her at London Zoo, so gentle that keepers let a boy named Christopher Robin climb into her enclosure and feed her condensed milk. He renamed his teddy bear after her.