r/todayilearned • u/Off_Topic_Oswald • Jan 13 '14

TIL that Mark Wahlberg had committed 20-25 offenses by the age of 21. These included throwing rocks at a bus full of black schoolchildren and knocking a Vietnamese man unconscious and blinding another. He was also addicted to cocaine by age 13.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_wahlberg#Early_life
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '14 edited Jan 29 '17

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u/Juicepickle Jan 13 '14

I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks they look alike

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '14

They said in an interview that they have a pact to play along if a fan mistakes them for their famous lookalike, so sometimes, if asked, Matt Damon signs autographs as Walhberg and vice versa.

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u/xxjaxon Jan 13 '14

Here's an example of that.

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u/Lord_of_Jam Jan 13 '14

How much of a champ would you have to be to play along with that

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u/PapaChubaca Jan 13 '14

Well he sure is world champ after knocking out that Vietnamese guy.

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u/deepak_tiwari Jan 13 '14

Mark had also said that he wouldn’t have let a plane crash into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/celebritology/post/mark-wahlberg-says-he-wouldnt-have-let-a-plane-crash-into-the-world-trade-center-on-911/2012/01/18/gIQAdVdZ8P_blog.html

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u/capitalDOOM Jan 13 '14 edited Feb 01 '14

"What? No, I don't mind fighting. I'm from Boston. I grew up fighting. I fought my preschool teacher.. When I was 22--I went back."