15 Famous People And Their Inexplicably Bizarre Obsessions

Aaah, if it's not our old pals: obsession and addiction. These are classic mental conditions that, if not treated properly, can lead to serious consequences. We’re a weird animal, aren’t we? Humans may become hooked on nearly anything. Isn't that strange? But wait until you finish reading.

It gets weirder, though? Celebrity culture syndrome is an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which people become unduly preoccupied with celebrities' professional and personal lives. According to psychiatrists, while many people are obsessed with cinema, television, sports, and music stars, the only thing they have in common is that they, too, are all public characters. Celebrity worship has been documented since the nineteenth century.

Sir Patrick Stewart, the great British icon of elegance and solemnity, is...super into Beavis and Butthead? Yes, that Patrick Stewart, beloved Star Trek captain and Shakespearian actor. Here are the specifics of his Beavis and Butthead obsession, as well as 14 additional anecdotes about prominent people who are obsessed with something strange:

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Sir Patrick Stewart is very, very into Beavis and Butt-Head. It's borderline addiction, in fact. I have ties, ! have all the videos, ! have a wonderful collection of T-shirts, he says. When the history of 20th century American television is written, ! think that Beavis and Butthead will be — Source: ContactMusic

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Gandhi was obsessed with poop. He'd greet the girls in his ashrams every morning with Have you had a good bowel movement this morning, sisters? and gave them enemas (and received enemas from them). — Source: Commentary Magazine

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Thomas Jefferson had a weird, lifelong obsession with American mastodons. He was so into mastodons (they were called mammoths at the time) that he talked about them a lot and even had his friends pay big postage bills to mail him mastodon teeth. CRACKED.COM — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Adolf Hitler was a big Disney fan. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was his favorite movie, and he was so into Disney movies that, in 1937, Joseph Goebbels gave him 18 Disney flicks as a Christmas gift. — Source: DW

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Hugh Hefner had a weird fixation with getting Britney Spears on the cover of Playboy. The obsession started from when Spears turned 18, and he apparently had a crush on her. — Source: Maxim

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Marilyn Manson is a massive fan of the TV show Eastbound and Down. The director, David Gordon Green said, Yeah, Marilyn Manson, he's f---ing obsessed with the show. And Adam Bhala Lough, who worked with Manson on Splatter Sisters, said Manson just rattled off whole chunks of dialogue from the — Source: MTV

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Philosopher Kurt Goedel was SO into his wife's cooking, it killed him. He was so terrified of being poisoned, he'd only eat what she cooked-- so when she had to go to the hospital for some time, he ate nothing, and starved to death. CRACKED.COM — Source: TU Wien

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Dan Aykroyd has a pretty strong obsession with law enforcement. It's so strong, he carries a police badge wherever he goes. — Source: MSNBC

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Nikola Tesla absolutely couldn't stand round objects. That was just one of his bizarre fixations- he also wouldn't touch hair, despised jewelry, and used 18 napkins to thoroughly polish every dining implement. — Source: National Geographic

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Thomas Edison was super obsessed with making stuff out of concrete. That didn't just mean making, say, houses --he also wanted to make concrete furniture, including filing cabinets, bedroom sets, and even pianos. — Source: Atlas Obscura

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Napoleon Bonaparte was super obsessed with Australia. He was so interested in it (it was a newly discovered continent at the time), that he funded an expedition to Australia in 1805 that mapped its southern coastline for the first time and he had a chunk of the continent named Terre — Source: National Gallery of Victoria

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Fidel Castro ate ice cream like crazy. He'd have containers of ice cream smuggled to him from the U.S. and, one time, he had 18 scoops of ice cream as dessert after lunch. — Source: VICE

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Tchaikovsky was absolutely terrified his head would fall off while he conducted an orchestra. One time, in 1868, he used one hand to hold his head while conducting one of his own pieces, and he was so nervous that he forgot pretty much every note. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Great Courses Daily

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Novelist Graham Greene was really obsessed with eunuchs. The obsession was so strong that, while he was working for MI6 and they asked him to go to a conference, he replied: Like the eunuch I can't come. — Source: VillageMagazine

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Lou Ferrigno is a hardcore Beanie Baby collector. He and his wife mostly collect them for their kids, but he's still kind of competitive about it he says You're always trying to outdo the other people and get ones you don't have. — Source: Google Books

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