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Friday 24 April 2015

27 MOST AMAZING FACTS OF BRUCE LEE


1. Bruce Lee had the ability to snatch a dime off a person’s open palm before they could close it, and leave a penny behind.

2. In 1962, Bruce lee landed 15 punches, a kick and knocked out his opponent in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds. 

3. Bruce Lee’s kicks were so fast that while filming for one scene in Enter the Dragon, they had to re-film it in slow motion (34 frames) so that it wouldn’t appear fake. 

4. Bruce Lee was a fan of The Great Gama, the only undefeated wrestler in the world. Great Gama’s career spanned 50 years.

5. Bruce Lee was known to be a great Cha-Cha dancer. He had won the Hong Kong Cha-Cha Championship in 1958. 


6. A statue of Bruce Lee was placed in Mostar, Bosnia because he was something that all ethnicity liked and could agree on. The statue was later vandalized and destroyed. 

7. Bruce Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away was found to be around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second). 

8. Bruce Lee was a big Muhammad Ali fan and used to would watch his fights on film obsessively.

9. The San Francisco Giants eradicated their Seagull problem with a Red Tailed Hawk named “Bruce Lee”

10. Yip Man who taught Bruce Lee opened his own martial arts school so that he could afford opium.

11. Bruce Lee had the ability to catch a grain of rice in mid-air with chopsticks. 

12. Bruce Lee kicked a man so hard that it broke a bystander’s arm when the man fell into him. 

13. Bruce Lee’s last movie (Game of Death) contains footage of his actual funeral with close ups of Lee in his coffin.


14. When asked who would win in a fight to the death, Chuck Norris once said “Bruce [Lee] of course, nobody can beat him.” 

15. Bruce Lee was able to perform 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups and it has been said that he performed pushups with upto 125lb of weight on his back. He only weighed approx. 130lbs. 

16. Jackie Chan began his film career as a stuntman in the Bruce Lee films, Fist of Fury and Enter the Dragon. 

17. Bruce Lee’s first notable film (Golden Gate Girl) was shot in the USA, but wasn’t released in the USA until 5 years after it was released in China. He was just 1 at that time. 

18. Bruce Lee was part German (his mother is half German). 

19. Bruce Lee was taught “wing chun” by Grandmaster “Y”Ip Man when Bruce was 13. 

20. Bruce Lee was one of Hong Kong’s most prominent child actors, with 20 movies to his name by the time he was 18.

21. There was a cultural phenomenon called Bruce ploitation, in which numerous Bruce Lee look-alikes starred in cheap knock-off movies to cash in on the obsession with Lee after he died. 

22. Bruce Lee’s secret hobby was writing poetry, and he was actually pretty good at it. 

23.JEET-KUNE-DO is his special martial art technique, which was invented by him.

24.He was so fast he could take a coin from your open hand and replace it by another before you had time to close it.

25. Bruce Lee, s father sent him to San Francisco at 18  from Hong-Kong, because he would always get in trouble with Hong-Kong police for being known as well known street fighter.

26.He had capable to make a hole in a soda-can by punching with his finger and at that time soda can were made with freaking steal.

27.He also had capable to do push-ups by his single hand ,thumb and by index finger only.


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