50 Things You Didn't Know About Justin Timberlake

All of the low-key details JT has quietly revealed over the years.

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We all know Justin Timberlake's story. He parted ways with 'N Sync after seven years together and released his solo debut Justified in 2002. His hit single "Like I Love You" was the first step forward in a successful career of music, movies, and television.

It hasn't been an easy ride for Timberlake who, throughout the years, went through a number of public break-ups, struggled with leaving behind his boy band for a solo venture, and tried to balance an acting and music career, along with a personal life. But he's done it well. He recently married Jessica Biel and is set to officially release The 20/20 Experience tomorrow.

Long before he was tight-lipped about his future plans, love life, and career choices, JT was just a Southern mama's boy who invited writers into his family's home, revealed his deepest emotions, and the stories behind his music.

These are the 50 Things You Didn't Know About Justin Timberlake.

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He never writes down lyrics. He completed Justified without touching a pen or paper.

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He personally called radio program directors and asked them to give "SexyBack" a chance.

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He once claimed to own every model of Air Jordans ever made.

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He was stoned during the Justified sessions but quit smoking during the recording of FutureSex/LoveSounds.

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He dips his Oreo cookies in milk for exactly seven seconds.

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Someone once sold his leftover French toast on eBay for $1025.

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He and his parents purchased a golf course in Memphis after it was in risk of being closed.

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He takes golf lessons from Tiger Woods' former coach, Butch Harmon.

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He took guitar lessons for three weeks but got bored and started teaching himself.

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His favorite movie is Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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His parents say Justin was a very quiet child and a perfectionist who couldn't stand dirt on his shoes or hands.

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His mother was Ryan Gosling's guardian for a year so he could come to the U.S. and be on The Mickey Mouse Club.

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He gave Britney Spears her first kiss.

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He cried himself to sleep for a while after his break-up with Britney Spears.

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Madonna asked him to drop his pants and injected him with a B12 shot in the butt, in the studio.

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He owns his own Tequila brand, 901.

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Stevie Wonder inspired the song "Senorita."

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He once had to tell Stevie Wonder that his harmonica was off-tune when he recorded a solo for 'N Sync.

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He plays a young Elton John in the 2002 video for "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore."

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He started imitating harmonies on the radio at age 2.

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He sang at the Grand Ole Opry at age 10.

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If he wasn't a musician, he wanted to be a basketball player.

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His father played in a bluegrass band when he was an infant.

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His mom came up with the name "'N Sync."

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He thought Justified was "10 times better" than anything 'N Sync had done.

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He says he looked like a "moron" when he was in 'N Sync.

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He says he'll probably never sing an 'N Sync song in public again.

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When he was a Mousketeer, he watched Michael Jackson's Disney film, Captain EO, more than 20 times.

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When he listens to Eminem, it makes him want to "beat the sh*t out of somebody."

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He can't listen to hip-hop when he drives because it makes him speed.

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He stopped smoking pot for 10 months after he got "Punk'd" by Ashton Kutcher.

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He says he only shop for clothes for himself once a year.

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The O'Jays weren't happy that he was the one who inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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He says that he's "overwhelmed by the girl" in every relationship.

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He says he can count his true friends on one hand.

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Justin's former bodyguards called him Youngblood because "he's got a little soul to him."

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He meditates regularly and considers himself more spiritual than religious.

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He admits that his family was completely offended by the Janet Jackson Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction.

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He thinks he and Britney didn't work because they spent too much time being "the big thing for teenyboppers."

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He says his character in the film In Time is most like him in real life.

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Kanye West once called Timberlake his biggest inspiration and competition.

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He's terrible with computers.

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He and Andy Samberg won an Emmy for SNL skit, "Dick in a Box" skit.

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He admits to having both OCD and ADD.

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His favorite thing was to make people sing, until he realized he made people laugh.

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