Chuck Norris Turns 70, Can Still Roundhouse Your Face
(Getty Images | Inset from a promotional still for Invasion U.S.A.)
This memorable fight scene with Bruce Lee helped launch Chuck Norris' career as an action star. (From Way of the Dragon)Martial Arts action star Chuck Norris turns 70 today and he's showing barely any sign of aging. Sure those red tresses are a little grayer, but the Walker: Texas Ranger star still looks like he's got it in him to deliver a crippling roundhouse kick to some bad guys' faces.
Chuck has enjoyed a resurgance in popularity over the last couple of years despite his retirement from film. That's thanks in part to the popularity (and hilarity) of Chuck Norris Facts, a website that pays homage to the action star with a series of absurdly badass facts about Chuck.
In honor of Chuck's birthday, here are a few of those facts courtesty of chucknorrisfacts.com.
- Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
- Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its descendants are known today as giraffes.
- If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
- Chuck Norris is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
- When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.
- According to Einstein's theory of relativity, Chuck Norris can actually roundhouse kick you yesterday.
- When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn't lifting himself up -- he's pushing the Earth down.
- Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse-kick-related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.
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