1. Marilyn Monroe used to shave her face to exfoliate her skin.

1. Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop sold "bio-frequency stickers" made of the "carbon material NASA uses to line space suits" they claimed would "rebalance the energy frequency in our bodies." When alerted to the product, NASA said their spacesuits weren’t even lined with carbon material.

1. Before Ed Sheeran became internationally famous, he put on a free show for his small fan base. Over 1,000 fans turned up to see the show, so Sheeran ended up playing four different shows to make sure everyone saw a gig, including a gig outside on the street after the venue had closed.

1. Actress Margarita Carmen Cansino had to lighten her skin, endure hairline electrolysis, and change her name to Rita Hayworth in order to become famous.

1. Jackie Chan's family was so poor he was almost sold to a wealthy British Couple when he was still a baby.

1. When 18-year-old Lady Gaga was studying at NYU, her classmates made a Facebook group called "Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous" where they bullied her and called her an "attention-wh*re". She dropped out after a year to pursue her music career full time.

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1. Comedian Mike Birbiglia has been diagnosed as a sleepwalker, and he once jumped through a second-story window while dreaming that a missile was about to hit his hotel. To restrain himself, Birbiglia sleeps in a sleeping bag and wears mittens at night.

1. American rapper Eminem is afraid of giraffes and eight-legged insects.

1. Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman.

1. Floyd Mayweather has a long history of domestic violence. He has been accused of violence against women with alarming frequency. He pleaded guilty in two of those incidents, and in another, he was convicted only to have the charges dismissed four years later. Mother of one of his victims claimed, he “swung open a car door, hitting her jaw, pushed her into the car and punched her several times in the face and body.”

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1. Before she found fame, Megan Fox worked at a smoothie shop and she dressed up as a banana to attract customers.

1. When Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking’s first wife saw the movie script for The Theory of Everything, she deleted all the F-words, saying “Scientists in the 1960s and 70s didn't use the F-word and I’m pretty sure they don't know either.”

1. American singer Gwen Stefani wrote "Hollaback Girl" in response to Courtney Love calling her a cheerleader in an interview.

1. Maroon 5 was banned from China after keyboardist Jesse Carmichael wished the Dalai Lama of Tibet a happy birthday on Twitter.

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1. Robert Downey Jr. buried the clothes that he wore in 1987's "Less Than Zero" in the backyard of his house in a symbolic attempt to bury his decadent 1980s Brat Pack image and begin a new phase of his life and career after filming Chaplin.

1. The Spanish secret service gave Juan Carlos I, a former king of Spain, hormones to lessen his sex drive because it was considered a state issue.

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1. Jackie Chan and his stunt team are blacklisted by all insurance companies so he has to pay himself whenever somebody in his movies gets hurt.