Fun celebrity facts

Samuel L. Jackson was part of a group of students that held a group of trustees at Morehouse College hostage, one of which was Martin Luther King Sr.

Woody Harrelson’s dad was an assassin.


His estranged father was the killer of federal judge John H. Wood Jr.; Harrelson has said he visited his father in federal prison.

During World War II, Audrey Hepburn was a courier for resistance fighters in Holland.

Tom Hanks is a third cousin, four generations removed, of Abraham Lincoln.

Vin Diesel’s name is an anagram of “I END LIVES.”

Mindy Kaling was born Vera Mindy Chokalingam

Danica McKellar is a mathematician and has a theorem named after her.

Natalie Portman has been published in TWO scientific journals.

Dolph Lundgren has a master’s degree in chemical engineering and won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at MIT.

Jake Gyllenhaal was given his first driving lesson by Paul Newman.

James Lipton was a pimp in France

Johnny Depp is terrified of clowns.

Tyra Banks is terrified of dolphins

Matthew McConaughey is terrified of revolving doors

When Jim Carrey was just a teenager, he and his entire family took janitorial jobs and lived out of a Volkswagen camper.

Nicolas Cage once bought a pet octopus, supposedly because he thought it would help with his acting. (???) He also once did mushrooms with his cat.

Steve Jobs used to relieve stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets.

Sex guru Dr. Ruth is a trained Israeli sniper.

Elvis was a natural blond. He began dying his hair black in high school.

Sylvester Stallone’s first movie was a softcore PORNO called “Party at Kitty and Stud’s”.

When Madonna moved to New York City, she worked at Dunkin’ Donuts. She got fired because she squirted jelly on a customer

“Boardwalk Empire” star Steve Buscemi worked as a New York City firefighter, from 1980 to 1984.

Tim Allen was arrested in 1978 for possession of 1.4 POUNDS of cocaine . . . and was jailed for two years.

Kesha has an IQ of 140, and scored 1500 on her SATs.