15 Incredible Real-Life Achievements By Major Celebs
![15 Incredible Real-Life Achievements By Major Celebs](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/3/879903_320x180.jpg)
How about a game of Mad Libs?
___ revolutionized the congas. ___ testified at the Hague. ___ was a Morse Code operator who was one of the first people to learn about Joseph Stalin's death. An episode of ___ saved a dude from going to prison, because he was able to find himself in the background of one scene. ___ patented a device to make cleaning up poop just a little bit easier. ___ made a celebrity appearance at CrimeCon, and ended up helping to solve an actual murder. Somewhat similarly, ___ testified in a murder trial, when the woman he was going to go on a date with was found murdered. Frankly, that one sounds just a tag fishy, no matter who the celeb in question is. ___ invented a custom shoe that allowed him to perform a dance move thought to be impossible. Pretty good basketball player ___ met extremely successful brutal dictator ___, back in ___, and for a while, was one of the only Americans in contact with the rogue nation.
All that, and more, below!
Prince
![Fig.2 Fig. Fig د. Fig 4 Prince designed and named the Purpleaxxe keytar. Prince is the sole inventor on a patent for a keytar which he called the Purpleaxxe. The instrument made appearances on stage more than once, but it's unclear if Prince himself ever played it. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/879909.jpg)
Anthony Correia/Shutterstock, USPTO
Natalie Portman
![GRACKED Natalie Portman has serious science cred. As a student at Syosset High School on Long Island in the late 1990s, Portman made it to the semifinals of a very demanding research competition, while also carrying out an investigation into a new method of turning waste into useful forms of energy.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/879906.jpg)
Bill Nye
![CRACKED Bill Nye created a better ballet slipper. The Science Guy designed the slipper to better support dancers by encasing and protecting the toes while providing support along the sole. Не understood that traditional ballet slippers hurt the dancer's body, and designed one that works with nature's forces instead of against them.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/879914.jpg)
Kristen Stewart
![CRACKED Kristen Stewart helped write a paper on A.I. The paper, released on ArXiv, describes experiments with style transfer (using machine learning to transform one image into another's artistic technique and color profile) that they used while making Come Swim, Stewart's screenwriting debut.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/879919.jpg)
David Schwimmer
![STU ION HO David Schwimmer RA saved the day. CAT Ross from Friends helped the New York Police by giving them footage of a violent fight that broke out outside his apartment. Police were able to apprehend one man, while another was taken to the hospital with stab wounds. TH CRACKED RAP](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/879918.jpg)
Dennis Rodman
![CRACKED Dennis Rodman is sort of a diplomat to North Korea. Rodman and Kim Jong-un met back in 2013 and hit it off immediately, resulting in multiple subsequent meetings between the two (usually featuring other basketball players as well) and possible diplomatic implications.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/879917.jpg)
Michael Jackson
![The secret to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal move? A shoe he invented. Jackson designed a special shoe with a triangular slot in the heel, which hooked onto a metallic peg that came up from the stage floor at the right moment. This allowed him to lean forward at an impossible angle without collapsing. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/879913.jpg)
Warner Bros.
Hedy Lamarr
![Hedy Lamarr was an actress, beauty icon, and inventor. Along with composer George Antheil, Lamarr created a frequency hopping system to make radio- guided torpedoes harder to detect. This eventually became the basis for modern wireless technologies. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/6/879916.jpg)
Ashton Kutcher
![CRACKED UAL Ashton Kutcher gave evidence in a murder trial. On one Valentine's Day, Michael Gargiulo allegedly murdered Ashley Ellerin, who Ashton had plans to go on a date with. Не knocked on her door, but when nobody answered, he left. The next day he found out she had been brutally stabbed in her own bathroom just minutes after he arrived.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/879912.jpg)
Selena Gomez
![CRACKED Selena Gomez helped solve a murder case. Over one weekend, Gomez helped amateur sleuths solve a real-life cold case at CrimeCon Chicago. The event was organized to help bring peace to Kurt Sova's family by solving his murder.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/879915.jpg)
Jamie Lee Curtis
![CRACKED FIG2 FIG3 Jamie Lee Curtis made a diaper with a built-in wipe holder. Curtis invented a souped-up diaper with a waterproof baby wipe-holding compartment (wipes included). This infant garment makes the process of changing diapers much simpler.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/879911.jpg)
Tinseltown/Shutterstock, USPTO
Larry David
![Curb Your Enthusiasm saved a man from going to jail for life. Juan Catalan was arrested for a girl's murder, but he claimed to have been at Dodger Stadium watching the game, which just so happened to be when Curb Your Enthusiasm was shooting there. Since Larry David brushed right against Catalan in footage time- coded that night, that proved his innocence. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/879908.jpg)
HBO
Johnny Cash
![Johnny Cash was a badass secret agent. The Man in Black got his start in the military, where he was a top secret Morse Code operator. Cash intercepted a message about Joseph Stalin's death, which was huge at the time because of the Cold War. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/879910.jpg)
Naomi Campbell
![CRACKED Former supermodel Naomi Campbell testified in The Hague. Campbell testified at the trial of former warlord and President of Liberia Charles Taylor, who was charged with war crimes committed in Sierra Leone. She was called to testify after allegedly accepting a diamond as a gift from Taylor in 1997. There is no suggestion that she knew the diamond's possible origin.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/879907.jpg)
Marlon Brando
![Marlon Brando created a new tuning system for conga drums. In addition to acting, Brando was also passionate about conga drums. Не went as far as to create a new tuning system for them, and invent a motorized device to help tune the drums more easily. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/879905.jpg)
Paramount Pictures