11 Cruise eats like Beckham.
According to reports, Cruise has remained lean well into his 50s by following the Beckham diet, a strict diet regimen named after soccer star David Beckham, who is known for his 1,200-calorie-a-day diet that consists mostly of vegetables and lean proteins.
12 He started acting thanks to an injury.
Though Cruise enjoyed wrestling on his high school’s team, a knee injury left him unable to play, which sent him looking for another way to spend his time—and it inevitably lead him to audition for the school’s production of Guys and Dolls.
13 Cruise learned to dance watching Soul Train.
As a kid, Cruise memorized routines he saw on the television show Soul Train after noticing how other boys used their dancing skills to woo the ladies.
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14 He loves tall women.
At only 5-foot-7-inches tall, Tom Cruise is shorter than just about every woman he has ever wooed. Another fun fact: According to Vanity Fair, Nicole Kidman was once asked what she looked forward to after her marriage to Cruise ended, and she replied, “Wearing high heels again.” Burn!
15 He couldn’t read until he was an adult.
Until Cruise was introduced to the Church of Scientology in the late ’80s, Cruise claims that he could barely read due to a debilitating case of dyslexia. “All through school and well into my career, I felt like I had a secret,” he once told People. “When I’d go to a new school, I wouldn’t want the other kids to know about my learning disability, but then I’d be sent off to remedial reading.”
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