During World War 1, Harry Houdini took 1 year off performing to help sell war bonds and teach american soldiers how to escape from German handcuffs.
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Jon Heder was paid only $1,000 for his role in Napoleon Dynamite.
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Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest and lost.
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Leonardo DiCaprio was named Leonardo because his pregnant mother was looking at a Leonardo da Vinci painting in a museum in Italy when DiCaprio first kicked.
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In their early careers, Sylvester Stallone and Jackie Chan both took part in porn.
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Michael Caine became an actor because all the prettiest girls at his school were in drama class.
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Jackie Chan’s mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy.
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Heath Ledger locked himself in a hotel room for a month to prepare for his iconic role as the Joker in The Dark Knight
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