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16 insane celebrity facts you never knew

Mind blown.

1. Cyndi Lauper once spent two weeks living in the woods with her dog named Sparkle.

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From a 1984 Rolling Stone article:

She met an artist, a man in his sixties named Bob Barrell, with whom she studied for a while. He introduced her to poets and politics (although she’d already been a peace marcher in high school) and to such writers as Thoreau. Inspired, Cyndi set off with her dog, a mutt named Sparkle, for Canada, where she spent two weeks in the woods north of Toronto, sleeping in a tent and sketching trees.

A dog named Sparkle? Sounds like the perfect companion to spend a fortnight in the woods with.

2. Kate Winslet’s is married to a man named Ned Rocknroll and her child is named Bear Blaze.

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3. Leonardo DiCaprio has dated a frankly absurd number of models.

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Gisele Bundchen, Toni Garrn, Erin Heatherton, Bar Rafaeli, Eva Herzigova, Amber Valletta — what do they have in common? They are all models and they have all dated Leonardo DiCaprio.

(DiCaprio is currently dating Victoria’s Secret model Kelly Rohrbach.)

#consistent

4. Will Smith was actually born in West Philadelphia.

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“In West Philadelphia, born and raised…”

5. Harry Styles has four nipples and still gets the shift more often than you.

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Sickener.

6. Cara Delevingne’s godmother is… Joan Collins

Ah yeah, standard.

7. Pierce Brosnan used to be a fire-eater.

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He told The Guardian that he took it up after taking a workshop in 1969. Because girls had their tops off, naturally.

...one night I came in to rehearse and I looked in and some guy was teaching people to fire-eat. There was a big group of people in there but I noticed that there were women and they had their tops off. So I thought I'd join in.

Oh Pierce.

8. Marilyn Manson's real name is Brian.

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Howya, Brian?

9. Brendan O'Carroll is a certified genius and a member of Mensa.

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10. When Chris Martin acts the dope, he forces himself to drink vodka. As punishment.

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The odd ritual started when he was forced to ask Coldplay drummer Will Campion for forgiveness for sacking him. He and his fellow bandmates went to a pub and...

They made me have lots of vodka and cranberry juice in remembrance of what a nasty piece of work I was being. Now if I find myself making a big mistake I have to force myself to drink that stuff to remind me not to be such an idiot!

Vodka to make you act like less of an idiot? Sounds like it could backfire.

11. Woody Harrelson's father was a criminal jailed for killing a federal judge.

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12. And Matthew McConaughey's father died while having sex.

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McConaughey's mother spoke about his sudden death in her autobiography.

On Monday mornings, he and I often said goodbye by making love. But one day, all of a sudden, it just happened. I knew that something was wrong, because I didn't hear anything from him. Just nothing. But it was just the best way to go!

13. Oprah's name on her birth cert is... Orpah.

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She was named after a character in the Book of Ruth, but people kept mispronouncing it and so Oprah was born.

14. Nicolas Cage once took magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis.

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The actor recounted the incident on an episode of Letterman.

I remember lying in my bed for hours and Lewis was on the desk across from the bed for hours, staring at each other . . . not moving. But he would stare at me and I had no doubt that he was my brother.

We repeat: Nicolas Cage took mushrooms with a cat named Lewis and hallucinated that he was his brother.

15. Russell Crowe started smoking when he was just 10 years old. 

And seems to have fond memories of it.

16. Tom Hardy used to be mad for MySpace

Look at these profilers.

But don't go thinking he's embarrassed...

I'm actually not remotely ashamed—that is me in my natural habitat, thank you. I might not be an Adonis, but I like to think of myself as an Adonis in that photo.

Good man, Tom.

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