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After Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman split, it came out that Cruise and the Church of Scientology had Kidman's phone tapped.

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Audrey Hepburn's real name was Audrey Kathleen Ruston.

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The Countess of Castiglione spent her final years in black-colored rooms with closed blinds and no mirrors.

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One of the most selfless acts of WWII was almost lost to time—because the man responsible refused to take credit.

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Cary Grant only had one front tooth. He lost one when he was a boy and simply had the rest of his teeth pushed together.

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Isabella of Castile’s rise to power in the 15th century coincides with the introduction of the “queen” piece in chess.

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Anne Lister has been called "the first modern lesbian."

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D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation was the first film screened at the White House.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor's real name was "Sari."

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Marilyn Monroe once described Montgomery Clift as “the only person I know how is in even worse shape than I am.”

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100,000 people attended Tsar Nicholas II's coronation. It was terribly planned, and 1,300 people were killed in a stampede.

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In math and science classes, Lohan was a top student, earning straight As throughout her early school years.

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Timur's casket had the words, “Whomsoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I” inscribed inside.

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Uma Thurman called the experience of filming Kill Bill with Quentin Tarantino "dehumanization to the point of death."

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Diane de Poitiers began her affair with the future King Henry II when she was 35 and he was 15.

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John Barrymore's last words were, "Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

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While filming Bringing Up Baby, Katharine Hepburn was nearly attacked by the leopard, and was saved by its trainer.

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Guy Fawkes was actually dragged straight to King James's bedroom on the night he was caught.

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Each of Dolly Parton's breasts is insured for $300,000, for a total of $600,000.

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About Napoleon III, Karl Marx said that all great people appear twice in history: first as tragedy, and second as farce.

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The samurai class had female counterparts: the fearsome Onna-bugeisha.

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Carole Lombard and Clark Gable's home was filled with gag gifts they'd bought each other, including a life-sized iron statue.

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Janis Joplin once knocked Jim Morrison out with a whiskey bottle.

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Clark Gable was something of a germaphobe. He never took baths because the idea of sitting around in dirty water shook him to his core.

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After her father died, Gloria Vanderbilt became a fabulously wealthy heiress when she was just 18 months old.

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Reportedly, Tallullah Bankhead's last words were "Codeine...bourbon."

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