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Celebrity Food Fetishes: "What the Great Ate" Reveals Odd Eating Habits

Did Angelina Jolie feast on cockroaches? Wm Jas/Flickr; AP

(CBS) People have some pretty strange eating habits, and that goes for celebrities as well as the rest of us.

Did you know that Angelina Jolie once feasted on cockroaches? Or that Elvis Presley once flew more than 800 miles just to get a favorite sandwich?

PICTURES: Famous Food Fetishes

You know that Saddam Hussein's neck wound up in a loop - but did you know the doomed Iraqi dictator once told his captors he wouldn't eat Foot Loops?

Those are just three of many fascinating facts to be found in a new book entitled "What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food & Fame, by Matthew Jacob and Mark Jacob.

PICTURES: Famous Food Fetishes

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