Rapper Tupac Shakur, who died five years ago, has claimed the No. 1 spot on the album charts for the week ending April 1, 2001, for his posthumous double-CD 'Until the End of Time,' according to Soundscan Data. Shakur is seen at the MTV Music Video Awards in New York in this Sept. 4, 1996 file photo. HB/
Buzzfeed dropped another list of crazy celebrity facts. Here are some highlights:
1. When Tupac Shakur died, his mother had him cremated . . . then she and some of his friends rolled his ashes into a blunt and smoked it.
2. Keith Richards took some of his father’s ashes and snorted them with cocaine.
3. Patrick Stewart didn’t know he was uncircumcised until his WIFE told him.
4. When Elton John and David Furnish entered into their civil union, Eminem sent them two diamond-encrusted rings. But NOT the kind you wear on your finger, if you know what I mean. Elton says they’ve never been used.
5. Dick Van Dyke says he once fell asleep on a surfboard in the ocean and got lost at sea, and dolphins pushed him to shore.
6. Jack Black’s mother was engineer Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the system that rescued the Apollo 13 crew.
7. Ringo Starr was the first Beatle to try weed. He smoked it with Bob Dylan. Then the rest of them partook.
8. James Cameron thinks he may have been, quote, “the last man in the Western Hemisphere to learn about” 9/11. He was underwater filming footage of the Titanic wreckage, and surfaced 12 hours after the attack.
9. Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane were both meant to be on flights that crashed on 9/11. Wahlberg changed his travel plans, and MacFarlane missed his flight due to a hangover.
10. Cher puts Tom Cruise in her Top Five of all time when it comes to sex.
11. Tim Allen became a SNITCH after he got arrested for cocaine possession. He ratted on dealers to get a lighter sentence, resulting in the indictments of 20 people. Tim served about two years.
12. During a visit to a private zoo, Mike Tyson once offered the owners $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla. They declined.
(Check out dozens more here.)
