28 Little-Known Facts About Famous People
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Due to the image certain celebs present, we all make assumptions about their personal lives.
Because of the amount of scrutiny they're under and the time spent in the lime light its easy to fool ourselves in to thinking we know everything there is to know about celebrities and the ultra famous. The fact is though, sometimes the public persona can just be a diversion from the real people that exist beyond the constant glare of the media attention.
For example, Tom Hardy might seem like a super tough guy but he's actually not. In fact, he feels very intimidated by other men at the gym and doesn't feel very manly.
We never knew about the clever tactics Robert Pattinson used to disarm an obsessive stalker…one key part of his strategy involved being an incredibly boring date.
Want to learn more? Of course you do! Scroll on down for more on that and 27 other surprising facts about famous people:
![ROBERT PATTINSON TOOK AN OBSESSED STALKER OUT TO DINNER AND BORED HER. Не complained about his life the whole time, and he never saw her again. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/3/813693.jpg)
![KANGJU SAMUEL L. JACKSON WAS PART OF THE BLACK POWER MOVEMENT. Jackson and other radical students held his college's trustee members hostage in an effort to reform the school's curriculum. His mother sent him to LA after the FBI threatened him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/2/813692.jpg)
![ROWDY RODDY PIPER could really play the bagpipes. It wasn't just part of his wrestling persona- Piper was a real piper from a very young age. And, being all out of bubble gum, he kicked ass at it, doing well in international competitions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/1/813691.jpg)
![PATRICK DEMPSEY is a racecar driver. Driving isn't exactly brain surgery, like his character a SAY HOKES BA used to perform in Grey's Anatomy. Still, not every driver competes at AT 58 Premium Parachu OF Le Mans and Daytona, as Dempsey has. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/9/813689.jpg)
![The Pitch Perfect actress attended law school in her native Australia, which allows her to negotiate her own movie deals. REBEL WILSON is a qualified lawyer. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/9/0/813690.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM HEDY LAMARR made WiFi possible. Lamarr was a big-name actress in Golden Age Hollywood. She was also an amateur inventor. She came up with an idea for radio communication that eventually led to cellphones, WiFi, etc.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/7/813687.jpg)
![Paul McCartney is well past 70, but he is still touring. In fact, he has been touring almost every year since the breakup of The Beatles. Pafen PAUL COLLECT McCARTNEY Freshen Up Tour Festivals 2018 Live at The Covern 2018 to 2019 2018 2018 ONE IN ONE PAUL McCARTNEY One On One Pappy & Harriet's Desert Trip 2016 by 2017 2018 2015 CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/6/813686.jpg)
![Abba's studio sessions were so long, their sound engineer says he'd almost pass out from hunger. They never left a song unfinished, and worked on every one as if it were a potential hit single. Two members, Björn and Benny, even took vacations just to write songs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/8/813688.jpg)
![Gordon Ramsay's day: 16 hours of work. 5 hours of personal time. 3 hours of sleep. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/4/813684.jpg)
![Fantasy author Terry Pratchett wasn't the fun, carefree guy his fantasy-comedy stories led you to believe he was. According to his friend Neil Gaiman, he was a ragingly angry man, and credited his creative energy to his anger. CRACKED COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/5/813685.jpg)
19 Celebs Who (In Private) Aren't Like Their Public Personas
![CRACKED.COM AB6046 Einteffle Cig Later Tom Hardy hates going to the gym because he feels intimidated by the tough guys there. Не admits that he doesn't feel very manly in real life, and he imitates guys that scare him to create his on-screen persona.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/2/813682.jpg)
19 Celebs Who (In Private) Aren't Like Their Public Personas
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![Madonna got falling-down drunk on stage. During a concert in Australia, Madge appeared to get good and liquored up onstage while dressed up as some sort of erotic Victorian rodeo clown. In between swigs of hootch, she moaned things like: Someone please take care of me, please, Who is going to take care of me? and Please, someone f--k me. She then attempted to ride, then fell off, a tiny children's tricycle. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/1/813681.jpg)
![VINCE VAUGHN LOVES GUNS Unlike most Hollywood actors, Vince Vaughn is a huge proponent of guns. Не said that he supports people having guns in public, that guns should be allowed in schools, and that public shootings only happen in gun-free zones. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat, the comedian said. GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/8/0/813680.jpg)
![The female rock icon Chrissie Hynde believes that women who dress provocatively are responsible if they are sexually assaulted. If I'm walking around in my underwear and I'm drunk? Who else's fault can it be? GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/9/813679.jpg)
![Nicolas Cage made $2,161,000 selling the first-ever Superman comic book. His copy of Action Comics No.1, which features Superman's first appearance, was the first comic to break the $2 million mark in an auction. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/8/813678.jpg)
![Jay Leno invested in rare and valuable motorcycles, and it paid off. For example, he bought six 1929 Brough bikes for over $30,000 apiece in the 1990s, and their value has gone up tenfold since then. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/7/813677.jpg)
![SALMA HAYEK AND EMINEM Everyone was surprised at Eminem's unexpected appearance at the 92nd Academy Awards, including Hayek. She posted on Instagram, explaining: In these pictures it might look like Eminem and I are best friends. But what really happened is as he was walking offstage and I was getting ready to walk onstage, I was so shocked to see him that I spilled water all over him. If you examine our faces, I look mortified and he looks terrified of me. As I was trying to wipe it off I impulsively hugged him and I said 'Nice to meet](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/3/813673.jpg)
![KEVIN COSTNER AND MADONNA Costner met Madonna backstage at one of her concerts that were part of her 1991 documentary, Truth or Dare. Costner told her that her concert was neat, to which she responded by sticking her finger down her throat and saying, Anybody who says my show is 'neat' has to go. She later apologized to Costner for the incident. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/6/813676.jpg)
![KRISTIN CHENOWETH COLLECTS QUARTERS The actress stores jars of quarters, which she disinfects with Purell. She says it's a holdover from being a broke actress. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/1/813671.jpg)
![AMANDA SEYFRIED COLLECTS TAXIDERMY VAR She's been collecting since the late '00s to amass a small museum's worth of dead animals.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/0/813670.jpg)
![Francis Ford Coppola patented a unique, but unecessary t-shirt. 15 T S R o 7/C P 2 6 3 5 4 UIN 7 a by la 4 5 a a S 6 7 27 20 1 6 A , Y > و de a 1 10 9 - 1 I 20 10 12 71 11 12 26 CRACKED.COM You know that feeling when you have an unreachable itch on your back? And how hard it can be to describe its location to a potential back scratcher? Francis has the answer: a t-shirt with a big picture of a turtle](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/6/813666.jpg)
![Eminem is probably the fastest speaker ever. CRACKED.COM While we can't confirm there weren't more articulate cave people, Em rapped a record 1,560 words in 6 minutes in his 2013 song Rap God. At one point, he blurts 97 words in 15 seconds.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/7/813667.jpg)
![Charles Fleischer would like to offer you an egg in these trying times. CRACKED.COM The voice of several characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? patented a toy... egg, specially designed for pulling, stretching, and bouncing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/5/813675.jpg)
![Cousins CRACKED.COM Chris Farley was the first cousin of Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford Motors.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/8/813668.jpg)
![Distant Cousins CRACKED.COM Bernie Sanders and his SNL impersonator Larry David discovered they are distant cousins on PBS's Finding Your Roots.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/4/813674.jpg)
![Ice Cube geeks out over architecture. ICE CUBE CELEBRATES THE EAMES - - He's a Getty Museum expert on the subject. Before returning to Compton to revolutionize rap, Ice studied architectural drafting. So for their 2011 post-war exhibition, The Getty made him their resident expert on Hollywood architectural design legends Charles and Ray Eames. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/6/9/813669.jpg)
![Colin Farrell is an authority on line dancing. Не used to make a living teaching it in bars. As a 19-year-old aspiring actor, Farrell supported himself by touring nightclubs across Ireland and clutching his belt to some good ol' country and western music. Не hasn't gotten rusty, either. Не recently led a line dancing class on Ellen. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/7/2/813672.jpg)