10 Things You Didn't Know About Leonardo DiCaprio

8. A Journalist Labelled Him "Boring" For Being Able To Name 20 Endanged Species From Memory

As this article has already established, Leonardo DiCaprio is a huge animal lover and - as a result - he takes them seriously. Very seriously. During a now infamous interview with Time Magazine journalist Joel Stein in 2000, DiCaprio - perhaps intent on using said interview to promote something worthwhile - reeled off the names of 20 endangered species. As a result, Stein refers to the actor as "boring."

It's true that there's something quiet and almost unreadable about Leonardo DiCaprio The Man. Whereas his characters are often eccentric, the real life DiCaprio seems a lot more reserved and occasionally introverted. Boring, though? You honestly can't call a man who spends his afternoons cruising around on a yacht with twenty supermodels in two "boring."

Yes, this man regularly ensures that such things happen to him.