cool bowie facts

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-he slept with mick jagger
-he once excorcised his swimming pool
-he survived on a diet of only milk and peppers for years. at his lowest he weighed 90 pounds (he was 5’10”)
-he wrote a super dodgy autobiography that thankfully didn’t get published
-one time he got high on marijuana and ate two loaves of bread in one sitting
-he had ADHD
-his nose essentially fell off from cocaine use
-he was very good at baby sounds. he did some of the baby noises in labyrinth
-he should’ve died like twelve times
(-broke both of his legs in a freak accident while fixing a car. he forgot to lock the brake and rolled on top of him, crushing him.
-he made the exact same mistake while trying to fix the car again, and it shattered both of his kneecaps. both times could’ve easily killed him had he not had witnesses who were able to help.
-cocaine overdose
-he was a chain smoker for 40 years
-he literally had SIX heart attacks)
-was both terrified of planes and had severe motion sickness, which lead him to go to drastic lengths to avoid flying. once he literally toured america by boat just to avoid it.
-he stored his own piss and cum in jars in the fridge.
-he loved to read and had his own traveling library
-he was into occultism and witchcraft
-his character in the man who fell to earth was played by his co star because he missed some filming days due to illness.
-during that same movie, he also missed days after he’d drank some bad milk. he claimed to see gold swirls in the milk, but it was tested and nothing was wrong. nobody knows why it made him sick
-his brother was schizophrenic and he wrote songs about it. “aladdin sane” was inspired by him.
-in the man who fell to earth, tommy was basically a more extreme version of bowie, both of them having a lot of sex, being addicted to drugs, being ‘aliens’, having motion sickness, and bent bisexual.
-one time he pissed in a toaster.