Brown - 1000 Things You Might Not Have Known About Famous People

1000 Things You Might Not Have Known About Famous People

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John Brown

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1000 Things You Might Have Not Known About Famous People

Copyright 2015 by John Brown

FACT 1 . | Elvis Presley was a natural blonde. His familiar black hair was the product of dye, beginning back in high school.

FACT 2 . | Simon Cowell briefly worked as a runner in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining". He polished Jack Nicholson's axe.

FACT . | Mark Wahlberg only served 45 days in jail for an unprovoked, racially motivated attack in 1988 that left one of two victims blind. he was initially charged with attempted murder.

FACT 4 . | James Doohan served with the Canadian Army in World War II. On D - Day, he killed two German snipers and was shot six times.

FACT . | Johnny Cash wrote a science fiction story about a 21st century America that had been conquered by Russia called, "The Holografik Danser".

FACT . | Comedian, Rob Riggle, served in the Marines for 22 years, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He has been deployed in Kosovo, Liberia and Afghanistan.

FACT 7. | Dr. Ruth is a trained sniper. To this day, she can load a Sten automatic rifle in under a minute, while blindfolded.

FACT . | Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge Star Trek fan. At a NAACP fundraiser at UCLA, he convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show when she was thinking about leaving to go on Broadway.

FACT . | At 35, Harrison Ford was fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola when a studio executive, testing actresses for a new film, asked him to help out by reading the lines written for the male lead. The film was Star Wars.

FACT 10. | David Bowie's left eye became permanently dilated after he got into a fight when he was 15. The fight was over a girl.

FACT 11. | One of Hitler's associates once told him that his short mustache was unfashionable. Hitler responded by saying: "If it was not the fashion now, it will be because I wear it."

FACT 12. | Vangelis, one of the pioneers of electronic music, composed and performed the soundtracks to Blade Runner and The Bounty, and won an Academy Award for his score to Chariots of Fire. He also can't read a single note of music.

FACT 13 . | Bruce Dickinson is not only the lead singer of Iron Maiden, but in his spare time he is also a world class fencer, author, and licensed Boeing 757 pilot. However, he never suggested "more cowbell" for any of Blue Oyster Cult's songs. That was a different Bruce Dickinson.

FACT 14 . | Steve Jobs became a vegan because he believed the diet would eliminate the need to bathe.

FACT 15 . | Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10 pounds of marijuana through Chicago O'Hare International Airport.

FACT 16 . | While at school, a young Bill Gates was tasked with writing the code for the program that scheduled classes. Gates altered the code to put himself in a class with mostly female students.

FACT 17 . | Isaac Asimov published so many books of novels, short story collections, essays and various non - fiction, that if you read a different one every week, it would take you at least nine years to finish them all.

FACT 18 . | Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny as well as a plethora of other cartoon characters, got into a near fatal car accident in 1961 that resulted in a triple skull fracture and a three week long coma. After many failed attempts to stir Blanc, his doctor tried a different tactic. He asked, "Bugs, can you hear me?" Blanc, in the voice of Bugs Bunny, responded, "What's up, Doc?" From this point on, the doctor was able to speak to him by addressing him as his characters until he was out of his coma.

FACT 19 . | Swedish film legend, Greta Garbo, disclosed to close friends decades after World War II, "Mr. Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I am the only person who would not have been searched."

FACT 20 . | Steve Buscemi, a former FDNY firefighter, showed up at ground zero on 9/12/2001, and worked 12 hour shifts for a week, digging through rubble for survivors. He declined interviews and photographs as he wasn't there for publicity.

FACT 21 . | Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

FACT 22 . | Bob Marley's dad was white. He was a white English - Jamaican marine. He was actually embarrassed of his biracial background and resented his father so much that it influenced his entire musical career.

FACT 23 . | James Earl Jones has one of the most iconic voices of our time, but as a child, he had a severe stutter that he was ashamed of. The stutter caused him to be silent for nearly eight years.

FACT 24 . | Theodore Roosevelt read an average of one book per day; even on days when he was busy being the President.

FACT 25 . | Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman looked so much alike during Padme's part of Star Wars, that their own mothers had difficulty telling them apart.

FACT 26 . | Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, has appeared in two Hollywood movies. He appeared in "Holiday in Mexico" and "Easy to Wed". Both of the movies were made in 1946, and he was a background extra in both movies.

FACT 27 . | Nicolas Cage owned a pet octopus. He claimed that studying its movements helped him with his acting.

FACT 28 . | Forty years after walking on the moon, Buzz Aldrin made a rap song produced by Snoop Dogg called "The Rocket Experience".

FACT 29 . | John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States and one the founding fathers, had a beloved dog in the White House named Satan.

FACT 30 . | Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer.

FACT 31 . | Ricky Gervais used to be in a new wave pop duo called "Seona Dancing".

FACT 32 . | Daryl Hannah is missing the tip of her left hand index finger. It was sheared off by a rope on a well at her grandmother's house when she was a child. She usually wears a prosthetic finger.

FACT 33 . | Dean Wincers played Ryan O'Reily on Oz. He went on to play Johnny Gavin on Rescue Me. Today, he's best known as Mayhem in ads for All State Insurance. In 2009, he nearly died from a bacterial infection that stopped his heart for 2.5 minutes. Over the next year, he lost two toes and half a thumb to gangrene.

FACT 34 . | In Northern Ireland, on August 5, 1987, Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey collided with a Volvo driven by a mother and daughter, who were killed. Broderick claimed that he did not known why he was in the wrong lane. He was quoted for saying, "I don't remember the day. I don't remember even getting up in the morning." Broderick was charged with careless driving and fined $175.

FACT 35 . | The lyrics to Billy Joel's song "Tomorrow is Today" come from his suicide note. He tried to kill himself by drinking furniture polish because of his wife's affair with his drummer.

FACT 36 . | Leighton Meester was born while her mother was in prison for drug smuggling.

FACT 37 . | Thora Birch comes from a showbiz family. Her parents are Jack Birch and Carol Conners, former porn stars who both appeared in the film "Deep Throat".

FACT 38 . | Vin Diesel was a Dungeons & Dragons geek. He played the game for more than 20 years. He even wrote the forward to Thirty Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons.

FACT 39 . | In 1933, Brooke Hart, a close friend of Jackie Coogan, was kidnapped and murdered by Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes. As the two awaited trial, Coogan, part of a huge mob, prepared a rope in an adjacent park while others broke into the jail and dragged them out to be horrifically lynched. Jackie Coogan helped pull the rope.

FACT 40 . | Andy Garcia has never done nude scenes. He was born with a conjoined twin no bigger than a tennis ball attached to his shoulder. A scar remains on the place from where his unformed brother was surgically removed.