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There are plenty of things that are common knowledge about Scarlett Johansson. One, she's gorgeous. Two, she's newly engaged to the most enviable man on the planet, journalist Romain Dauriac. And three, she's starring in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon, in theaters today. But we're not here to state the obvious. We're here to state the obscure and weird facts you can print out and paste on the shrine you have of the 28-year-old actress in your closet.
Without further ado, here are 25 things you didn't know about ScarJo—which, by the way, is a nickname she hates. There are definitely more, but hey, she likes to keep things low-key, so we wouldn't know.
On Christmas Eve, her cat ate a needle and the whole family spent the night at veterinarian's office. It was her most memborable Christmas Eve.
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She was dumped by President Obama. The 44th POTUS admits he dictated a thank-you email, but denies that they ever had a "relationship." It turns out she had been corresponding with Obama's personal assistant, Reggie Love.
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She seduced unwitting Swedish non-actors as her disguised self in the upcoming sci-fi film Under the Skin.
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Self-described "stalker fan freak" of Tom Waits. That explains her 2008 album Anywhere I Lay My Head, which is comprised entirely of Waits covers.
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Like Michelangelo loved pizza, she loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Maybe not that much, but growing up she prefered TNMT to other superheroes.
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She was so distracted by her own cleavage on a billboard advertisement for The Island that she nearly got into a car accident.
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She was chased by a group of Republican senators at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner. She was busy following her brother who was chasing Katie Couric. Next time, she plans on stalking Anderson Cooper.
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She is on the cover of The Beauty Book for Brain Cancer, a coffee-table book of celebrities, musicians and models donates 100% of the proceeds to Syndey Neuro-Oncology Group (SNOG).
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She once got bruised after a stripper gave her a lap dance. It was her 21st birthday and she went with her friends and her brother (also his birthday).
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Her signature smoky voice got her rejected from a commercial she auditioned for at 7 years old.
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She is allergic to the outdoors. So stop fantasizing about frolicking fields and running into each others arms, she'd probably sneeze phlegm all over you.
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She helps friends diagnose and cure skin conditions. After having several skin afflictions herself, she became obsessed with dermatology and watched hours of medical documentaries.
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In 2005 she buried her fish in L.A's Chateau Marmont garden, where she was living. It was a Japanese fighting fish named Cassius that died after Johansson's friend forgot to change his water.
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Italian artist Francesco Clemente portrayed her as the Queen of Sword in his deck of 78 custom-painted tarot cards.
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She has a twin brother named Hunter. He is three minutes younger than her. "The three most important minutes of my entire life," Johansson recalled in an interview with Today.
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