Celebrity Facts - Did You know?

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Steve Buscemi was a firefighter with the FDNY as a teenager and returned to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

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Robin Williams had a stipulation in his contract that for any movie or event he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them in work.

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Tatum O' Neal's mom was in a couple episodes of the Andy Griffith show. She was in the episode where she and Andy go to a fancy french restaurant and she eats snails and wants him to eat them too.

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Anonymous wrote:Robin Williams had a stipulation in his contract that for any movie or event he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them in work.

Love Robin Williams! I was so sad when he died.

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Anonymous wrote:Robin Williams had a stipulation in his contract that for any movie or event he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them in work.

Awww, that’s really nice. I’m still so sad he’s gone😢

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Teenage Tom Petty took guitar lessons from a slightly older guy, Don Felder, (later of the Eagles) in their shared hometown of Gainesville, Florida.

Well before joining the Eagles, Joe Walsh and his wife had a daughter who died at 3 in a car crash. The mom was driving. In her memory, Walsh installed a water fountain in his daughter's favorite park.

O.J. Simpson's had a daughter, Aeren (from his first marriage to Marguerite) who drowned at age 2.

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PP.

Neal Schon (noted more as a founding member of Journey) joined Santana at 16. Never graduated high school, just went on the road with Santana. He's been married 5 times.

Geddy Lee has been married to the same woman since 1976.
Their son is a PhD.

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Julia, the woman who plays Ruth on Ozark, is actually a New York Jew. When I found that out, it made me think even MORE of her acting.

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PP. The actor, Orson Welles, made up a story that his wife died in a plane crash. He was never married and fabricated the story possibly to conceal his homosexuality.

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Anonymous wrote:PP. The actor, Orson Welles, made up a story that his wife died in a plane crash. He was never married and fabricated the story possibly to conceal his homosexuality.

Apologies. I went back to check and Orson was married. I swear I recall a salacious story or book mentioning Orson Welles' lavender or faux Hollywood devised marriages. This was a thing in old Hollywood.

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Anonymous wrote:John Hartman, well known player with SNL, murdered by wife

Drunk uncle, is that you? Always getting names/facts wrong but schooling others on trivia? I've missed you during this time- you always make us laugh

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Alan Thicke wrote theme songs to include The Facts if Life and Diff’rent Strokes.

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Anonymous wrote:John Hartman, well known player with SNL, murdered by wife

The wife murdered him then killed herself.

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The only guy in ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard is Frank Beard.

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The crocodiles that Michael Jackson owned in Neverland ended up being sold to Joe Exotic. When the building with the video equipment burns down, the crocodiles that get incinerated as well were Michael Jackson's.