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Ten facts about Jean-Claude Van Damme that are unknown. And (un)true.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was born on October 18, 1960. He’s married to Gladys Portuguese. He’s 1.75 meters tall. In 1990, he starred in Lionheart, a movie in which he fought and defeated another street fighter in the deep end of a drained swimming pool while wearing a black leotard.
These are all facts about JCVD—facts that anybody with an Internet connection and half a brain could find easily enough at imbd.com. Those facts weren’t good enough for me, a fan so hardcore that I once had my cousin climb to the top of an oak tree and drop a coconut on my abs, like Van Damme’s sensei did to him in the movie Kickboxer.
So what did I do? I dug extra deep to unearth heretofore unpublished tidbits of information about the man whose bikini briefs are home to the tastiest of tidbits (don’t ask me, ask Kylie Minogue, his co-star sometime bedmate on the set of Streetfighter).
What I found are ten facts about Jean-Claude Van Damme that are totally unknown and totally true. Well, true-ish.
