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Who would have guessed that a guy who got famous for a song about pining after his friend’s girlfriend would have a huge collection of Star Wars toys? Scroll down for more surprising facts about celebrities you could have never imagined in a million years…

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While working on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feyman picked the locks of filing cabinets with nuclear secrets. Не was super bored in the middle of the desert, so he started learning how to pick combination locks and immediately applying that knowledge. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Al Capone’s Hidden Talent

Al Capone played the banjo in Alcatraz. Не was part of the prisoner band The Rock Islanders, who stayed active until Alcatraz closed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama enjoys repairing watches as a hobby. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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In his 70s, Fred Astaire took up skateboarding. Не stopped skateboarding only when he fell from his board and broke his wrist, at the age of almost 80. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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For 21 years, Dutch King Willem-Alexander worked as a passenger jet co-pilot. Не flew about twice a month, as a hobby that allowed him to focus on one thing -- flying the plane safely --and forget everything else for a while. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Marlon Brando became an inventor in his later years. Не invented stuff for conga drums (which he loved playing), and was awarded four patents for drum maintenance devices. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Bob Dylan loves building steampunk metal gates. l Dra 13 Не welds them by hand from vintage iron scraps. Не says he likes gates because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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John Cena is a huge Red Alert fan. NINTENDO SWITCH He's a huge fan of gaming in general, too, and has a beefy gaming PC. Не loses more than he wins, he says, but that's fine since he just enjoys playing so much. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Lucy Lawless shows up at random criminal trials. I spend a lot of time in the courthouse of whatever city I am at, she says, and she describes it as a way to learn about the place she's visiting for an acting job. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan had a website where he posted random vintage photos. It was called PeopleAndTheirCars.com, but it didn't feature much of people or their cars -- it was apparently just old photos he liked for whatever reason. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Terry Crews is an accomplished painter. 4 Не worked as a courtroom sketch artist, and kept going when he got into football -- he painted portraits of his teammates. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Bruce Lee wrote and translated poetry. The poems he wrote were kind of dark, and spoke about the fleeting nature of life, love and the passion of human longing, according to author John Little. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Barbra Streisand keeps her clothes, shoes, furniture, and other stuff in a fake mall in her basement. She said I have a lot of stuff, and instead of storing it just in a basement, why not make a street of shops that would house these things? CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Jim Broadbent (Professor Slughorn in Harry Potter) carves bizarre wooden statues. After carving them, he paints them, dresses them, and puts human hair (from wigs) on them. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Anton Yelchin took photos of people doing weird sex stuff. He'd lurk at night in seedy corners of Los Angeles and take bizarre, perverted photos. There are certain images I can't get out of my mind, Chris Pine said about the pictures. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Famous People With (Unknown) Super Weird Hobbies

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Jessie's Girl singer Rick Springfield has a gigantic Star Wars collection. Specifically, he has one of the biggest collection of Star Wars figures in the world. I've always been a toy freak, he says. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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David Bowie had a collection of over 400 works of art, valued at over $13 million. It included works by artists like Damien Hirst, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Marcel Duchamp. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama has a collection of about 15 luxury watches. We don't know much about the collection, but it includes two Rolexes and a Patek Philippe pocket watch he got as a gift from FDR himself. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Questlove has a collection that totals tens of thousands of records. Не started collecting as a small child, and now buys 10,000 to 20,000 in one go. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Phil Collins had probably the world's largest collection of Alamo artifacts. And he donated all 200+ items to the actual historic location in San Antonio years ago, and has promised to keep buying and donating more. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has a collection of horror movie posters. KAR TLMU And for a while, nearly every single room in his house was covered by posters featuring famous horror creatures. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Turns out, Drew Barrymore owns a big collection of ... uh, dictionaries. I just love words, she said, adding that using an app to look up words makes her sick. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Mark Wahlberg has a sneaker collection that's worth over 100,000 dollars. Не has about 137 pairs, and a professional appraisal of 90 of them gave a value of about $100,000. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Haruki Murakami has a gigantic collection of about two hundred T-shirts. Не put the collection on display, and even wrote a book on the subject: Murakami T: The T-shirts I Love. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Colin Kaepernick had a sneaker collection - but he ended up giving it away. SF Riddell For a pretty good cause, too-he donated the sneakers to shelters for the homeless and for orphaned children. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles, collects works of art by Black artists. When my kids were growing up, it was really important to me that they saw images of African-Americans, she said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Не might not look it, but Johnny Depp loves collecting 1st-edition literature. Не owns first-edition books from Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, and Edgar Allan Poe. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Leonardo DiCaprio actually collects, uh, dinosaur fossils ... and more. Не also has comic, rare books, and contemporary art - because of all that, ARTnews magazine put him on a 200 list of collectors. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Peter Jackson owns the world's largest private collection of WWI planes. His collection is so vast, he owns planes you can't find anywhere else today. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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Apparently, Drake collects Birkin bags for his future wife, whoever she is. ARD GRAMM The entire collection is on display in a two-story closet in his Toronto mansion. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Surprising Pop Culture Obsessions Of Celebrities

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