Hollywood's Most Popular Athletes-Turned-Actors

Chuck Norris

We all know this Internet meme "Chuck Norris doesn't cut butter with a knife, he cuts a knife with butter". Also, we know Chuck as a Bruce Lee victim and chest hair legend., but Chuck was a real-life championship Karate athlete. After playing the villain role in Lee's film "Return of the Dragon" in 1972, Chuck's career began to rocket.

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The More You Know

  • John Travolta would have played Maverick in Top Gun if his asking price wasn't too high.
  • Bela Lugosi was buried in full Dracula costume—cape and all.
  • Like Facebook, Star Wars was originally prefixed by the definite article ‘The’. Much cleaner without it.
  • There’s a Starbucks cup in every "Fight Club" scene.
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