Happy Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg!

She’s famous for being a co-host on “The View,” but the Whoopster has done a whole lot more over the years. Here, in celebration of her 56th birthday, are a few things you might not know about her:

Hey, It's A Paycheck

While Goldberg was waiting for her big break on Broadway, she worked in a funeral parlor applying makeup to corpses.

Do These Come In A Bigger Size? Although Goldberg is just 5 feet, 5 inches tall, she wears a size 11 shoe.

As A Diet-Program Spokeswoman, She Was A Big Flop Goldberg, always outspokenly political, made some X-rated jokes about President George Bush at a Democratic fundraiser in 2004. Shortly afterward, Slim-Fast dropped her after conservatives protested.

She Witnessed A Horrific Airplane Crash In 1978, Goldberg was standing on a balcony in California when she witnessed a midair collision between two planes. Terrified by what she’d seen, she didn’t fly until 2009, following intensive counseling.

She's Got Some Sympathy For Charlie Sheen Goldberg recently described herself as having been a “high-functioning drug addict,” and said she could understand why Charlie Sheen skipped rehab to go back to work. “I showed up for work,” she said, “because I knew a lot of people would be out of work and I wouldn’t get a check that I needed to buy my drugs."

She's Won The Quadruple Crown Of Show Business Goldberg is part of an elite list of entertainers, including Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand and Liza Minnelli, who have won all four major industry awards: The Grammy (“Whoopi Goldberg: Direct From Broadway,” 1985) the Oscar (“Ghost,” 1991), Emmy (hosting “The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel,” 2002) and Grammy (for producing “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” 2002).

She's A Lifetime Trekkie Goldberg has said she was inspired to become an actress by watching Nichelle Nichols as Lieutenant Uhura in the original “Star Trek.” In the 1990s, Goldberg had a regular role in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” And she eulogized Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” at his funeral.

She's Got Some Strange Eating Habits Goldberg told CNN interviewer Piers Morgan that she won’t eat “anything that could be hiding something…I don’t understand sauce, because you could hide stuff in sauce. I like my food naked.”

She's Not As Hardboiled As She Seems “I am the American Dream.” Goldberg has said. “I am the epitome of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done.”