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13 Weird Facts Found on Wikipedia About Celebrities

You know what they say: Everything printed on the Internet is true. Well, no, not really. But almost everything printed on the Internet is weird. Especially these "facts" about some of our favorite stars found on Wikipedia. Read on to be surprised, horrified, or just to get your next icebreaker at a cocktail party. [Image: Getty Images]

by Kate Ward

James Franco

“In his high school years, Franco was arrested for underage drinking, graffiti, and for being a part of a group that stole designer fragrances from department stores and sold them to classmates.” [Image: Getty Images]

Justin Bieber

“[Bieber’s future manager] Scooter Braun tracked down the theater Bieber was performing in, located Bieber’s school, and finally contacted [Bieber’s mother Pattie] Mallette, who was reluctant because of Braun’s Jewish religion; she remembered praying, ‘God, I gave him to you. You could send me a Christian man, a Christian label!… you don’t want this Jewish kid to be Justin’s man, do you?’” [Image: Getty Images]

Martha Stewart

“Stewart dated Sir Anthony Hopkins, but ended the relationship after she saw ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ She stated she was unable to avoid associating Hopkins with the character of Hannibal Lecter.” [Image: Getty Images]

Megan Fox

“Fox has revealed that she is not too social, stating, ‘You won’t believe this, but I never go out. I don’t like drunk, sweaty people whose only goal is to have sex. I stay home and play computer backgammon. Every once in a while, I go to Color Me Mine to do pottery.’” [Image: Getty Images]

Ben Affleck

“In the mid-1980s Affleck appeared regularly as a news correspondent for Kidsworld, reporting on such diverse issues as lactose intolerance and the life of retired circus elephants.” [Image: Getty Images]

Jon Hamm

“Unlike other actors his age, he could not be cast in youth-oriented productions like ‘Dawson’s Creek’ due to his older appearance. In 1998, having failed to obtain any acting jobs after three years, he was dropped by William Morris. Hamm continued working as a waiter, and briefly as a set designer for a softcore pornography film.” [Image: Getty Images]

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Will Smith

“In 2005, Smith was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for attending three premieres in a 24-hour time span.” [Image: Getty Images]

Charlize Theron

“During her early months there, she went to a Hollywood Boulevard bank to cash a check her mother had sent her to help with the rent. When the teller refused to cash it, Theron engaged in a shouting match with him. Upon seeing this, talent agent John Crosby, in line behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents and also an acting school. She later fired him as her manager after he kept sending her scripts for films similar to ‘Showgirls’ and ‘Species.’” [Image: Getty Images]

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Beyoncé

“Her pregnancy announcement earned a Guinness World Record for ‘most tweets per second recorded for a single event’ on Twitter, receiving 8,868 tweets per second, and ‘Beyonce pregnant’ was the most Googled term the week of August 29, 2011.” [Image: Getty Images]

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Emma Stone

“Stone’s low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of frequent screaming as an infant, resulting in the development of nodules.” [Image: Getty Images]

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Miley Cyrus

“Francois Navarre, the proprietor of the X17 photo agency, said Cyrus’s market value had picked up considerably after the Vanity Fair photo controversy: ‘She’s started to sell more. […] It used to be $300, and now it’s $2,000 for a picture.’ Estimates for a picture of the then-15 year old’s first kiss ranged from $30,000 to $150,000.” [Image: Getty Images]

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Nicki Minaj

“Minaj rapped in a foursome group called ‘Hoodstars,’ which consisted of group members Lou$tar (son of ‘Bowlegged Lou’), Scaff Beezy (Minaj’s current hype man) , and 7even Up. In 2004 the group recorded the entrance song for WWE Diva Victoria titled ‘Don’t Mess With,’ it was featured on the compilation album ‘ThemeAddict: WWE The Music, Vol.6.’” [Image: Getty Images]

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Oprah Winfrey

“Winfrey was named ‘Orpah’ after the biblical character in the Book of Ruth on her birth certificate, but people mispronounced it regularly and Oprah stuck.” [Image: Getty Images]

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