16 Vin Diesel Facts That Prove He Is AMAZING

So Vin Diesel is box office heavyweight and EVERYONE knows it.

I mean say what you will about the plot holes in the Fast and The Furiousseries, those movies made a load of money. And a lot of that was based on the pure bank-ability of Vin. But his on-screen tough guy persona is one aspect. But there's so much more.

So there are a bunch of things that you had no idea about — but now you will!

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1. He's a massive Dungeons and Dragonsfan and has been playing since was 12!

There's a book called 30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons... and he wrote the forward for it!

2. He's said that his greatest fear is:

(Slow clap for the lamest "biggest" fear.)

3. When he was 3 he literally ran away to join the circus...

He wanted to be a part of Barnum & Bailey’s circus performance but his mom got in the way and brought him home!

4. Teen Vin Diesel lent his dancing ability to the instructional breakdance video "Breaking in The U.S.A."

But WAIT... guess what his on-screen tattoos were based on?

5. Turns out he could have been Daredevilbut they wanted to go with Ben Affleck.

Actually, that may have been for the best for Vin.

6. He has his own video game development company... seriously!

It's called Tigon Studios and it mostly did the Chronicles of Riddick video games.

7. He's got NO TATTOOS. That's right, all of those ones in XXX were completely fake! They're all based on fantasy symbols and creatures, too.

PS the name MELKOR on his stomach is based on one of his Dungeons and Dragons characters!

8. He's actually never met his dad. "All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures."

She's got Scottish, English, and German roots. He does identify as a person of color so he knows who he is.

Everyone knows he plays Groot but did you know that he also played....

9. The Iron Giant. He lent his booming, deep voice!

10. He gained 35 pounds to play Fat Jackie in 2006's Find Me Guilty.The movie was dope for critics but audiences didn't agree and it tanked.

That commitment though...

11. He ended up in Saving Private Ryan because Steven Spielberg was deeply impressed by a movie that Vin had wrote, directed and produced!

It was called Multi-Facial. Major props, Vin!

12. He used to rap under his birth name: Mark Sinclair.

13. He was so close with Paul Walker that he's godfather to his daughter, Meadow Rain Walker.

Vin even named his third child Pauline after Walker.

14. When he was 17, he worked as a nightclub bouncer in New York. That's where he got his name Vin Diesel.

His friends gave him the nickname "Diesel" because they said he had non-stop energy. Vin was short for Vincent.

15. He has the third-highest number of Facebook friends for a celebrity with 99,121,341.

Only Shakira and soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo have more.

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