Post a little-known fact about someone famous, Part 2 [View all]
1) John Travolta did a commercial for Band-Aid when he was a kid.
2) Walter Matthau played a villain in "King Creole" and got beaten up by Elvis Presley.
3) Harlan Ellison had gargoyles mounted on the outside of his Los Angeles home.
4) Billy Bob Thornton has been married six times.
5) Vincent Van Gough may not have committed suicide..He may have been shot accidentally by a French teenager who was playing with a gun, and who, along with his friends, bullied Van Gough on a daily basis (They gave him cheap wine)
6) In real life, Richard Simmons is the same as he was on TV.
7) Carly Simon wrote "Anticipation" while waiting for her date, Cat Stevens, to show up.
8) In 1902, President Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear tied to a tree by the trip guide during a bear hunting trip in Mississippi.
9) After she disbanded The Runaways, Joan Jett founded Joan Jett & the Blackhearts.
23 major record labels rejected her debut album, so she released it on her own.
Her first single "I Love Rock & Roll" became a number 1 hit, selling more than 10 million copies.
10) Harlan Ellison's older sister, Beverly, died in 2010 without having spoken to him since their mother's funeral in 1976.
11) As a struggling writer, Charles Bukowski survived on one candy bar a day, it was a Payday, and cost a nickel.
12) John Wayne was afraid of horses.
13) Adolph Hitler was afraid of heights.
14) Inside Disneyland, Walt Disney had his own private apartment for his family..It's located near City Hall above the fire station.
15) When he was 9, John Wesley Hardin attempted to run away from home to join the Confederate Army.
16) Martin Sheen had a heart attack while filming Apocalypse Now.
17) Redd Foxx avoided the draft by eating a bar of soap before his physical, which resulted in heart palpitations.
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