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It’s always fun to learn new facts about Tom Cruise that make him sound weird. Don’t believe me? Just read this, from the New York Daily News and tell me it doesn’t somehow make you smile–just a little bit:

While people have been spooked by Tom Cruise of late, Joe DiMaggio was one of the first.

The actor, who seems weirdlier and weirdlier to fans as he continues to refuse to show his and Katie Holmes’ baby, Suri, scared the Yankee legend by following him, our source reports. This was in the mid-’90s, after Cruise had already starred in “Top Gun” and “Born on the Fourth of July,” but the baseball great, once married to Marilyn Monroe, didn’t realize – or didn’t care – what a big star Cruise was. “He’d show up at baseball-signing shows and wait for Joe to come out,” says the source. “One time, he waited outside a restaurant for him for three hours. [DiMaggio] called him ‘a short little guy.’ He didn’t like it. He felt like he was stalking him.”

If you continue reading the article in its entirety, they do kind of offer an explanation for Cruise’s behavior, but I tend to prefer my quotes incriminating and out of context.

Written by Lisa Timmons

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