Unexpected Celebrity Facts You Never Knew Before

Oprah Winfrey’s real name is actually “Orpah” because it was spelled wrong on her birth certificate.

Geena Davis almost made the U.S. Olympic archery team in 1999, after taking up the sport only two years prior.

Megan Mullally was fired from her role in Finding Nemo for refusing to do her high-pitched Karen Walker voice from Will and Grace.

Betty White is older than sliced bread.

Benedict Cumberbatch was abducted and shoved in a trunk by six men with guns while filming a show in South Africa in 2005.

Shirley Temple was such a talented child actor that people were convinced she was actually a dwarf, so the Vatican literally sent someone to investigate.

Christopher Walken used to be a lion tamer.

Martin Luther King Jr, Barbara Walters, and Anne Frank were all born in the same year.

Mark Wahlberg has three nipples.

 And Harry Styles has four nipples.

Elisabeth Moss grew up in the Church of Scientology and is still a member.

Jason Statham was a competitive diver before he became a professional actor.

And he almost drowned at the bottom of the Black Sea after a stunt went wrong while filming The Expendables 3.

Glenn Close was forced to join a right-wing religious cult by her father when she was a child.

Robin Williams was such a big fan of The Legend of Zelda that he named his daughter Zelda.

Jeremy Renner used to be a makeup artist.

Eartha Kitt had a threesome with James Dean and Paul Newman.

Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in New York when he was a teenager, and after the attacks on 9/11 he dropped everything to help with the recovery efforts.

Greta Garbo was Adolf Hitler’s favorite actress. He’d even send her fan mail and try to get her to visit him in Germany.