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1. One of my implicit favourite celeb facts is that Dolly Parton erstwhile entered a Dolly Parton lookalike contest astatine a West Hollywood cheery bar, conscionable for fun. She didn't uncover her existent identity, and the assemblage had a lackluster absorption erstwhile she went onstage. She ended up coming successful last, getting the slightest magnitude of applause, and mislaid to a resistance queen. "I overexaggerated my makeup, but they didn't cognize who I was. I conjecture they thought that this small feline conscionable decided to locomotion crossed the stage," she said.
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2. I'm definite you cognize that Tupac was tragically murdered successful 1996, but I'm consenting to stake you don't cognize this tidbit: aft Tupac died, his parent seemingly insisted helium beryllium cremated, past joined his adjacent friends arsenic they rolled his ashes into a blunt and smoked it.
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3. Similarly, Keith Richards once snorted his dad's ashes on with immoderate cocaine. "The strangest happening I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," helium revealed successful an interview. "He was cremated and I couldn't defy grinding him up with a small spot of blow. My dada wouldn't person cared, helium didn't springiness a shit. It went down beauteous well, and I'm inactive alive."
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4. Maybe I'm the lone 1 connected the satellite who doesn't cognize this, but did you cognize that Jackie Chan is simply a singer? He virtually has 20 albums. He was a pop star successful Hong Kong earlier making it large arsenic a movie star, AND he's operatically trained.
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5. One much Jackie Chan information — helium was successful a porn movie precise aboriginal connected successful his career. In 1975, helium starred successful All successful the Family alongside a well-known porn prima of the time. It was seemingly besides a comedy. Speaking astir the relation years later, Chan said, "I had to bash thing I could to marque a surviving 31 years ago, but I don't deliberation it's a large deal; adjacent Marlon Brando utilized to beryllium exposed successful his movies. The porn movie astatine that clip was much blimpish than the existent films."
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6. Similarly, 1 of Sylvester Stallone's archetypal roles was successful a softcore porn movie called The Party astatine Kitty and Stud's. He only auditioned for the movie due to the fact that he'd been evicted and was sleeping astatine the Port Authority Bus Terminal. He said he'd had to take betwixt doing the movie oregon robbing someone, saying helium was astatine "the precise end" of his rope. Starring successful the movie gave him $200 and got him retired of being unhoused.
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7. Another chaotic celeb communicative involves Sylvester's costar, Dolph Lundgren, who memorably played the ruthless boxer Ivan Drago other Stallone successful Rocky IV. In 2009, masked burglars broke into Lundgren's house, not realizing who it belonged to, and tied up his wife, Anette Qviberg, forcing her to manus implicit wealth and jewelry. The thieves past saw household photos featuring Lundgren...and rapidly fled, terrified of the famously beardown and gangly celebrity.
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8. Patrick Stewart didn't realize helium was uncircumcised. Appearing connected The Graham Norton Show, helium recalled being successful furniture with his wife. Somehow, the taxable of circumcision came up, and she claimed helium was uncircumcised. Stewart denied this, saying helium remembered his ma telling him helium was circumcised arsenic that was the manner astatine the time.
However, the adjacent day, helium had his yearly carnal and asked the doctor...who confirmed helium was not, successful fact, circumcised.
9. Eminem and Elton John are really bully friends. Defending him against allegations of anti-gay sentiment connected The Graham Norton Show, John said that for his civilian concern to David Furnish, Eminem sent them 2 diamond-encrusted cock rings. And no, they haven't been used!
10. Dick Van Dyke erstwhile had his beingness saved by porpoises successful the mediate of the ocean. He told the communicative connected The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson; apparently, helium fell asleep portion connected a ample surfboard successful Virginia Beach. When helium woke up, helium was mislaid successful the water and saw fins — astatine first, helium thought they were sharks, but luckily, they were porpoises, who got him to shore.
11. Jamie Lee Curtis is an inventor. In the '80s, she came up with (and patented) disposable babe diapers with a pouch for babe wipes, truthful that you don't person to propulsion them from a abstracted container. She aboriginal patented different mentation with a integrative container attached truthful the diaper tin beryllium sealed wrong the container aft use.
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12. In different invention-related fact, you cognize the Monkees set member, Michael Nesmith? His parent is the inventor of Liquid Paper — AKA, what we present cognize arsenic Wite-Out.*
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*Bette Nesmith Graham did not invent the Wite-Out merchandise specifically, but she created the archetypal "correction fluid" (aka, a whiteish paint-like fluid to screen up mistakes). This was iterated connected to make brands/items similar Wite-Out.
13. Speaking of celeb moms, Jack Black's parent is technologist Judith Love Cohen, who helped make the strategy that rescued the Apollo 13 crew. In fact, according to a tribute 1 of her different sons wrote aft her death, "She really went to her bureau connected the time that Jack was born. When it was clip to spell to the hospital, she took with her a machine printout of the occupation she was moving on. Later that day, she called her brag and told him that she had solved the problem. And...oh, yes, the babe was born, too."
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14. Another prima with a prolific comparative is Olivia Newton-John. Her grandfather, Max Born, was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was friends with Einstein and worked as Oppenheimer's supervisor. The 2 came up with the celebrated Born-Oppenheimer approximation successful quantum physics.
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15. Kesha owns a necklace made retired of her placenta. "My favourite keepsake is my placenta. My ma recovered successful my basement, crushed it up, and made into a necklace that I deterioration each time to amended my psychic abilities," she once said.
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16. Tom Cruise initially aimed to go a Catholic priest. As a teenager, helium went to a Roman Catholic seminary for school. While the authoritative crushed for his departure from the schoolhouse was his family's move, a person from that clip stated helium and Cruise were some asked not to instrumentality aft stealing intoxicant and getting immoderate of their classmates drunk.
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17. You cognize Beverly Hills, 90210 prima Lindsay Price? Her mom, Haeja Diane Price, was calved successful Korea and adopted by a Californian mates aft she was orphaned successful the Korean War. The mates besides had a biologic kid named William Price. Haeja and William ended up joined contempt being raised arsenic siblings.
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18. The Beatles were erstwhile banned from the Philippines. Quick small past acquisition for ya: the Philippines was tally astatine the clip by Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who were dictators contempt Ferdinand's rubric of "President." The Marcoses were nary excessively pleased that the Beatles declined to conscionable with them, oregon adjacent telephone — the Beatles had a argumentation astir gathering governmental figures. While the performance went well, their departure from the state went thing but. Their information ditched them, and the Beatles had to hail cabs and transportation luggage; erstwhile astatine the airport, the escalators were turned off, and employees were barred from assisting them. On apical of each that, a gathering assemblage virtually swarmed and deed them earlier they could board.
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19. TIL that Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to weed. Ringo Starr confirmed the longstanding rumor connected Conan, clarifying that portion Dylan didn't specifically proviso the weed, helium was determination erstwhile it happened. Starr was the archetypal to effort it. Paul McCartney besides confirmed the story, writing successful his memoir that Ringo and Bob "disappeared into a backmost room," and Ringo came backmost "looking a spot strange."
"He said, 'I've conscionable been with Bob, and he's got immoderate pot,' oregon immoderate you called it then," McCartney wrote. "And we said, 'Oh, what's it like?' and helium said, 'Well, the ceiling is benignant of moving; it's benignant of coming down.' And that was enough," McCartney continued. "After Ringo said that, the different 3 of america each leapt into the backmost country wherever Dylan was, and helium gave america a puff connected the joint." The quartet had a blast, and arsenic McCarney wrote, "It became portion of our repertoire from past on." This is evident successful the multiple songs inspired by their cause use.
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20. Oh, and successful lawsuit you didn't know, McCartney was erstwhile caught with 8 oz. of weed successful his suitcase portion successful Japan. He actually landed successful situation for 10 days owed to Japan's strict anti-weed laws; afterward, helium was deported. McCartney was lucky; helium could've ended up sentenced to 7 years successful prison. As for wherefore McCartney did this? "We were astir to alert to Japan and I knew I wouldn’t beryllium capable to get thing to fume implicit there. This worldly was excessively bully to flush down the toilet, truthful I thought I’d instrumentality it with me," helium said.
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21. Dennis Rodman's father, Philander Rodman Jr, has 29 kids, including Dennis. Well, that's according to Philander — Dennis really estimated the fig astatine 47. His begetter near erstwhile Dennis was precise young, and they did not meet again until 42 years later, erstwhile Philander showed up arsenic Dennis was pulling up to practice.
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"I was going successful to get into the gate, and this achromatic feline runs up to my truck, and I'm similar trying to speech to him, and helium said, 'I request to speech to you,'" Rodman recalled. "As I do, I'm precocious for practice. He said, 'I conscionable privation to fto you cognize I'm your father.'" Rodman really didn't judge him astatine first, but came to judge it. They did extremity up reconciling earlier Philander died successful 2020.
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22. Another Dennis Rodman fact? He's friends with Kim Jong Un, going truthful acold arsenic to accidental they're "friends for life." He's visited North Korea galore times, and with Kim, helium said the 2 "ride horses, we bent out, we spell skiing, we hardly ever speech politics, and that's the bully thing." The erstwhile NBA subordinate adjacent offered to "straighten things out" betwixt the person of North Korea and President Donald Trump, who helium besides said was a friend.
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23. In 1 much bizarre Dennis Rodman fact, he's broken his penis portion having enactment connected 3 abstracted occasions.
24. Gwyneth Paltrow is liable for redeeming a woman's beingness connected 9/11...by astir hitting her with her car. Lara Lundstrom Clarke was a 24-year-old relationship manager connected her mode to enactment astatine the World Trade Center connected the greeting of September 11, 2001. While crossing the street, she was astir deed by a Mercedes. "I stopped and they screeched to a halt," she recalled. "Then it developed into 1 of those classical who-goes-first situations. It got ridiculous. Then I made oculus interaction with the Mercedes driver. OMG it was Gwyneth Paltrow."
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Paltrow gestured for her to spell ahead, and Clarke was capable to prime her jaw up disconnected the level and marque it to the subway...seconds excessively precocious to drawback her train. When she got retired of the World Trade Center subway station, it was 8:47. The archetypal level had hit astatine 8:46. "If I had made that bid I would person been astatine my table connected the 77th level of 2 World Trade Center," Clarke said.
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25. Speaking of 9/11 — Steve Buscemi, a erstwhile firefighter, spent 5 12-hour days digging radical retired of the rubble aft 9/11, looking for survivors. Feeling depressed and anxious aft the attacks, helium headed for the tract and recovered his aged motor company, asking if helium could articulation them. The Brotherhood of Fire Facebook leafage aboriginal pointed out, "Very fewer photographs and nary interviews beryllium due to the fact that helium declined them. He wasn't determination for the publicity."
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Buscemi aboriginal said, “It was a privilege to beryllium capable to bash it. It was large to link with the firehouse I utilized to enactment with and with immoderate of the guys I worked alongside. And it was enormously adjuvant for maine due to the fact that portion I was working, I didn’t truly deliberation astir it arsenic much, consciousness it arsenic much.”
26. James Cameron missed 9/11 wholly due to the fact that helium was filming the Titanic wreckage. He was filming the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss, which progressive underwater footage of the Titanic wreckage and Titanic prima Bill Paxton, connected September 11, 2001. Twelve hours aft the attacks, Cameron surfaced from an underwater dive and asked Paxton, "What is this happening that's going on?" and Paxton replied, "The worst violent onslaught successful history, Jim." Cameron hypothesized helium "was presumably the past antheral successful the Western Hemisphere to larn astir what had happened."
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27. Mark Wahlberg and Seth McFarlene were both meant to beryllium connected flights that crashed connected 9/11. Wahlberg had decided last-minute to spell to a movie festival successful Canada instead, and McFarlene was hungover and missed his formation by 10 minutes.
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28. According to his member Jermaine, Michael Jackson was meant to person a gathering astatine the World Trade Center connected 9/11. He missed the gathering by oversleeping due to the fact that he'd been up precocious the nighttime earlier talking with his family.
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29. Susan Sarandon fundamentally became an histrion by accident. She work alongside her then-husband, Chris Sarandon, portion helium was auditioning for an agent. "I went on and did a country with him and she said, 'Why don't you some travel backmost and I'll correspond you.' At that time, she lone represented us, a brand-new Sylvester Stallone, and Perry King." She was truthful inexperienced, having ne'er adjacent had an acting class, that erstwhile she was asked to improvise successful her archetypal audition, she "didn't cognize what that was." Still, she "got the portion connected the spot."
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30. Am I the lone 1 who didn't cognize Cher and Tom Cruise dated backmost successful the '80s? And not lone that – turns retired she considers Tom Cruise successful her "top five" lovers of each time. "It was beauteous blistery and dense for a small minute," she told Andy Cohen connected Watch What Happens Live.
31. I besides did not cognize astir Snoop Dogg's children's rap career. He has a YouTube channel called "Doggyland - Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes" wherever he, arsenic Bow Wizzle, "help[s] beforehand societal affectional improvement arsenic good arsenic property related cognitive improvement successful the preschool set."
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32. Danny Trejo is simply a beloved histrion today, but helium had a unsmooth young adulthood. He landed successful situation aggregate times for cause and robbery charges, including astatine the notorious San Quentin. He got his commencement successful Hollywood after pledging to crook his beingness around, becoming a cause counselor; helium visited an histrion who was disquieted astir relapsing connected the acceptable of his movie, and was asked to beryllium an extra, playing a convict. When helium took his garment disconnected to alteration into his costume, idiosyncratic connected acceptable noted his tattoo and thought it would look bully connected camera. His relation was bumped up, and his vocation lone grew from there.
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33. Oh, and speaking of celebrities successful jail, Jordan Belfort and Tommy Chong were cellmates. In lawsuit you forgot, Belfort is simply a erstwhile stockbroker and transgression who Leonardo DiCaprio famously portrayed successful The Wolf of Wall Street, which was based connected Belfort's memoir. Belfort began his memoir successful situation for his fiscal crimes — aft helium got the thought from his cellmate, Tommy Chong, who was serving clip for selling cause paraphernalia. The 2 had go friends and regaled each different with comic stories from their lives. After a fewer nights of this, Chong suggested Belfort constitute a book.
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34. In different situation example, successful the precocious '70s, Tim Allen went to situation for cocaine possession. How'd helium spell from that to superstardom — particularly considering helium was facing beingness successful prison? Essentially, helium snitched connected different dealers. A lot of different dealers — 20 radical ended up indicted, with immoderate going to jail. He ended up serving lone a spot implicit 2 years. Oh, and apparently, the justice told him helium thought he'd beryllium a palmy comedian.
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35. Bill Murray was also arrested connected cause charges successful his younker — each due to the fact that helium made a gag astir bombs astatine the airport. It was his 20th birthday, and helium was flying backmost to assemblage erstwhile helium joked helium had 2 bombs successful his suitcase. He was overheard, and US marshals searched his bag, uncovering $20,000 worthy of weed (much much today). He ended up connected probation and dropped retired of college. Still, helium joined Second City not excessively overmuch later, which led to his drama career, truthful possibly it each worked retired for the best.
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36. Before Halsey was famous, she had a Tumblr that was mostly dedicated to One Direction and specifically Harry Styles. She wrote aggregate songs astir his narration with Taylor Swift that went viral, astir notably "The Haylor Song," arsenic it came to beryllium known. Halsey present regrets the song, which includes lyrics calling Taylor a "control freak," and "anal," arsenic good arsenic referencing her "false smiles." This is ironic considering Halsey would aboriginal catapult into fame and go Taylor's modern — each seems good betwixt the two, truthful I deliberation we tin chalk this up to teen 1D angst, but it's inactive comic to deliberation Halsey was erstwhile an anti-Haylor Directioner.
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37. This is 1 of my favourite celeb quality stories, conscionable due to the fact that of however hilarious it is. Cillian Murphy, a known Irishman, had moved to England by the clip helium had children. However, aft 14 years successful London, Murphy decided to determination backmost to Ireland, settling with his 2 sons and woman successful Dublin. Why? He was annoyed astatine his kids' "very posh English accents." On Dax Shepherd's podcast, helium said, "I wasn't appreciating that excessively much."
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38. Y'know the beloved, curmudgeonly patriarch from Modern Family, played by Ed O'Neill? Well, turns retired he's really a black belt successful Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He trained for decades aft starting astatine property 42.
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39. O'Neill was also signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers successful 1969, aft graduating from college, but was chopped during grooming camp. He aboriginal played Al Bundy connected Married... With Children, who everlastingly replayed his precocious schoolhouse shot glory days.
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40. Sarah Michelle Gellar besides reportedly has a black belt in some karate and Taekwondo.
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41. Carrie Fisher rewrote galore of Princess Leia's lines successful Star Wars and went on to go a publication doc for galore notable projects, including Hook, Coyote Ugly, Sister Act, and the Star Wars prequels. She was uncredited for overmuch of this work, which was mostly astir rewriting dialogue for pistillate characters similar Tinkerbell and Whoopi's quality successful Sister Act. Of course, Fisher would besides spell connected to person credited enactment successful TV/film penning and merchandise aggregate novels, but I inactive deliberation this is interesting.
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42. Harrison Ford is not conscionable a aviator successful Star Wars — he's also 1 successful existent life. He utilized his skills to rescue radical successful aggregate instances, including a pistillate who threw up successful his chapeau and different who was beauteous excited astatine gathering a personage adjacent successful dire straits, aboriginal saying, "Oh my God, Han Solo has conscionable rescued me." Though helium said helium stopped due to the fact that helium was disquieted radical would spell to the property and commencement calling him a "hero pilot." He said, "It's thing fucking similar that. It's a squad effort," saying it was dumb "to deliberation astir it that way."
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43. He's besides been successful aggregate aircrash crashes, including a chopper clang successful 1999, a plane crash successful 2015, and an lawsuit wherever his level was blown disconnected the runway successful 2000.
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44. Another personage who was successful a level clang was Sandra Bullock. The level skidded disconnected the runway, severely damaging the level but luckily leaving Bullock unhurt. Coincidentally, Bullock had precocious starred successful the movie Forces of Nature, which is astir a level that skids disconnected the runway.
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45. In a overmuch odder example, Paula Abdul has made aggregate remarks astir being successful a level clang successful the '90s, suffering injuries that led to her retreating from the spotlight for immoderate time. There's conscionable 1 problem: determination is nary grounds of the clang ever happening. Abdul's statement doesn't lucifer immoderate crashes astatine the time, though it is imaginable it was not reported, and the wreckage was not found. Still, arsenic this Jezebel article points out, this would mean Abdul and the different passengers conscionable near the burned-out level successful a tract and ne'er reported it.
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It's besides imaginable it was not reported due to the fact that it was truthful minor, but this does not astatine each lucifer Abdul's story, wherever she claims the craft was connected fire.
46. Decades ago, Mike Tyson tried to wage 10k to combat a gorilla. He was connected a backstage zoo circuit erstwhile helium witnessed a silverback gorilla being mean to the different gorillas successful the enclosure. "They were truthful almighty but their eyes were similar an guiltless infant," He said. "I offered the attendant $10,000 to unfastened the cage and fto [me] smash that silverback's snot box! He declined."
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47. There are soooo galore stars who are actually twins, including Ashton Kutcher, Vin Diesel, Scarlett Johansson, Gisele Bündchen, Jon Heder, Nicholas Brendon, Noah Schnapp, Kiefer Sutherland, Laverne Cox, Samantha Ronson, Parker Posey, Aaron Carter, Alanis Morissette, Elvis*, and Rami Malek.
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48. In different twin-related fact, did you cognize that Mary-Kate and Ashley are not identical twins? Despite looking ace similar, they're really fraternal twins.
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49. David Bowie didn't person heterochromia, arsenic galore believe. His eyes look antithetic due to the fact that their pupils are precise antithetic sizes, which is called anisocoria. He was not calved with this condition; helium really got into a combat with his person George Underwood arsenic a teenager. The 2 seemingly had a crush connected the aforesaid girl, with Bowie "boasting" to Underwood astir being a "Casanova." Underwood got upset and punched Bowie successful the eye, accidentally scratching it with his fingernail. Funnily enough, determination were nary lasting hard feelings, and Underwood would spell connected to go a immense collaborator of Bowie's.
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50. You astir apt already cognize Jane Fonda comes from a celebrated family, but you apt didn't cognize she besides comes from royalty. Fonda is related to Jane Seymour, 1 of Henry VIII's six wives (which includes Anne Boleyn — notably, the wives are the taxable of the philharmonic Six.) In fact, she was named aft Jane, and says she went by Lady until the 4th people successful notation to Seymour.
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51. Metallica is 1 of the fewer philharmonic acts to have performed successful Antarctica. After this show, which took spot successful 2013, they became the first-ever set to person performed connected each continent. In fact, they performed successful each azygous continent implicit the people of 1 calendar year.
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52. Mick Jagger has a lad who is younger than his great-grandchild. In 2016, his then-29-year-old woman Melanie Hamrick gave commencement to their lad Deveraux, 2 years aft his great-grandson Ezra was born. Ezra was calved to Jagger's granddaughter from his matrimony to Bianca Jagger successful the '70s.
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53. Guillermo del Toro's begetter was kidnapped for 72 days successful 1997, with a $1 cardinal ransom...which was initially reported to person been paid by manager James Cameron, a person of del Toro. Del Toro aboriginal clarified that helium had paid the ransom, but Cameron had offered, and that Cameron "came successful and took charge" of the situation, paying for a hostage negotiator to travel in.
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54. Benedict Cumberbatch was besides erstwhile kidnapped successful South Africa. He was driving with friends backmost to the acceptable of To the Ends of the Earth erstwhile their tyre blew out. Armed men asked them for wealth and their drugs (they were smoking weed), and past tied them up and enactment them successful their car, aboriginal putting Cumberbatch successful the trunk earlier tossing him connected the crushed successful the mediate of obscurity and letting them each go.
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55. Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandmother, who helium believed to beryllium his parent — turns out, his overmuch older "sister" was his existent mother. His parent was lone 18 erstwhile she had him, arsenic a effect of a narration with a joined man. To debar scandal, Nicholson's grandma claimed him arsenic her own.
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His "sister" (really his mother), June, ended up trying to marque it successful Hollywood, and erstwhile Nicholson moved determination to bash the same, she was the lone household subordinate adjacent by.
He didn't find retired the information until aft his parent died, erstwhile Time mag did a illustration connected him successful 1974 (directly earlier the merchandise of Chinatown) and discovered the information successful their research. The astir eerie part? Nicholson's quality finds retired the information astir different quality — namely, that her "sister" is really her girl — successful the film.
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56. Bobby Darin had the aforesaid happening hap to him. He was raised by his grandmother, reasoning she was his mother; successful reality, the pistillate he'd known arsenic his sister was really his mother. She'd had him erstwhile she was a teenager.
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57. Julia Roberts, who would aboriginal prima successful Runaway Bride, truly was a runaway bride. In 1991, days earlier she was going to wed Kiefer Sutherland, Roberts called off her wedding. On the time she was expected to beryllium married, she alternatively went connected a day with Jason Patric, who was friends with Sutherland (but had precocious been uninvited from the wedding), past ran distant with him to Ireland.
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58. Speaking of Roberts, Martin Luther King Jr. paid the infirmary measure erstwhile Julia Roberts was born. Why? Roberts' parents ran a theatre schoolhouse that fto successful the Kings' children astatine a clip erstwhile fewer programs would admit Black children. When her parents couldn't wage the infirmary bill, Martin and Coretta stepped in.
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59. And speaking of MLK Jr., Samuel L. Jackson erstwhile held his father, Martin Luther King Sr., hostage. Jackson was part of a radical protestation against the medication and curriculum, which progressive locking the school's committee (which included Dr. King) successful a country utilizing chains from the walkways for a time and a half. At 1 point, Dr. King had thorax pains, truthful they "put him connected a ladder, enactment him retired the window, and sent him down." Jackson ended up being kicked retired of schoolhouse for the protest.
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This is particularly astonishing considering Jackson had been an usher at Martin Luther King Jr's ceremonial the twelvemonth prior.
60. Former US Congressman Ron Paul utilized to beryllium an OB-GYN, and helium delivered Selena Quintanilla. Selena's parent besides didn't cognize she was large — she went to the infirmary due to the fact that she wasn't feeling good and was initially told she had a tumor that had to beryllium removed, according to Selena's father. Seeking a 2nd opinion, she met Ron Paul, who told her she was large and aboriginal delivered her child. So, without Ron Paul, Selena whitethorn ne'er person been born.
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"Imagine if we had fto the archetypal doc who wrongly diagnosed her, operate. There would beryllium nary Selena," her begetter said.
62. Woody Harrelson is the lad of hitman Charles Harrelson, who murdered Judge John Howland Wood successful 1979. This information would go overmuch alien successful airy of Harrelson's starring successful No Country for Old Men. Though the movie did not see it, the No Country for Old Men caller featured the line, "Here a portion backmost successful San Antonio they changeable and killed a national judge," which was likely referring to the execution perpetrated by Woody's father.
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63. Oh, and Matthew McConaughey mightiness besides beryllium Charles Harrelson's son, meaning Woody and Matthew might be half-brothers. According to McConaughey's mother, she "knew" Charles Harrelson and "frequented the aforesaid akin spot retired successful West Texas 1 clip erstwhile helium was connected furlough." While the 2 haven't taken a DNA trial owed to absorption connected McConaughey's portion to observe that who helium thought was his begetter whitethorn not really beryllium his biologic father, the anticipation has been discussed. This is particularly ironic fixed that Harrelson and McConaughey are adjacent friends, and their children already telephone the different "Uncle."
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64. Sean Astin has virtually lived the crippled of Mamma Mia! After his parent had a series of short-lived relationships and affairs resulting successful a pregnancy, his begetter could person been 1 of 3 men: Michael Tell, Desi Arnaz, Jr., oregon John Astin. He has a narration with each three, though a paternity trial yet proved Tell was his biologic father.
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65. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson reportedly had a bosom simplification due to having gynecomastia, wherever a man's bosom insubstantial swells. In the 2000s, helium was said to person undergone gynecomastia surgery, which is simply a simplification of bosom tissue. According to the World Entertainment News Network, helium said of the surgery: "It was an aesthetic thing. I went successful and showed the doctor, and helium said, 'Are you crazy?' I was walking astir with my garment disconnected each the time, truthful I had it done."
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In a throwback video, helium also referred to a past mentation of himself arsenic having "lil' boobs," saying helium "needed a bra."
66. Osama bin Laden was a large Whitney Houston fan, according to Kola Boof, who claims to person lived with Bin Laden for a fewer months. "He said that helium had a paramount tendency for Whitney Houston, and though helium claimed euphony was evil, helium spoke of someday spending immense amounts of wealth to spell to America and effort to put a gathering with the superstar," she said. She adjacent claimed Bin Laden planned to termination Bobby Brown, whom she was joined to astatine the time.
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67. The rumors are true — Harry Styles truly does person 4 nipples. And Carrie Underwood, Mark Wahlberg, and Lily Allen were calved with 3 nipples each, though Underwood had hers removed. Allen adjacent claims hers is "functional," "gets erect," and "lactates."
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68. Gemma Arterton was born with six fingers connected each hand. She had them removed arsenic a child. So did Taye Diggs.
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Here are Ashton's, wherever you tin spot what we mean by "webbed mediate toes."
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70. Lord of the Rings prima Christopher Lee had 1 of the wildest lives I person ever heard of. First, helium was the lone LOTR formed subordinate to person met Tolkien. He besides witnessed the past nationalist execution by guillotine. He fought successful World War II and was a Nazi hunter, and helium besides saw attraction camps.
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71. At 1 point, helium was reportedly a spy, and fans person theorized that his cousin, Ian Fleming, wrote the Bond books astatine slightest partially based connected him.
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72. Children's writer and writer Shel Silverstein worked for Playboy Magazine and often hung retired astatine Hugh Hefner's mansion. If The Giving Tree was written astatine the Playboy Mansion, I'm sorry, I'm ne'er going to look astatine it the aforesaid mode again.
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73. And finally, Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. Actors often person to registry a antithetic sanction with SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union, if their commencement sanction is taken (Emma Stone's existent sanction is Emily Stone for this reason, for example). But it's uncommon that the different sanction belongs to a personage of the aforesaid level, and it's comic to maine that 2 prolific actors person the nonstop aforesaid name.
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