I found these stories in interviews (in french, mostly), hope they're true. Anyway i like them. If you have any comments, or wanna add some facts, you're welcome. Send them here. Thanx.

• 1. When he was 12 years old, Lars was asked by kids scarcely older than him to be a human wedge for a kick drum. That's the way he found his calling, his identity and his faith. (from rock & folk)
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• 2. There's a club in Seattle where everything breaks when they play: strings pop off guitars, amps explode. They played twice there, it happened twice....
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• 3. Ruby Soho's real name is Kathy, she was Matt's girlfriend for 5 years. The song is about them breaking up. Tim and Lars wrote it without telling Matt, and he learnt it only one year after the album came out.
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• 4. Tim exchanges tapes with Joe Strummer from the Clash.  He's got his phone number, but he never dared to call him. Once, Joe left a message on his answering machine, saying he wanted to see him, but....
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• 5. On the day when they met Buju Banton, Tim and Lars saw bout 15 dreads around him, built like tanks, staring at them and their tatoos. They shouted at them: "You're an american band? Sing us sumthin so." And Lars took his breath, and started shouting Ruby Soho's chorus at the top of his voice. The dreads smiled, they were welcome. 
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• 6. Tim loves getting hugs. (thanx to Matt)
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• 7. When they went to Kingston, they got pulled over by a cop car, and Buju Banton was smokin a j. The cops didn't say a word cuz Buju's like a mayor down there. (thanx to Matt)
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• 8. The night Lars first met the rest of rancid, he was really drunk. He started drinking at 10 o' clock in the morning, and just kept going, didn't really stop, and ended up whacking his dick out and telling some girl to put it back in his pants for him. But she said: 'no!! it's got pee all over it!!' (thanx to Mark)
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• 9. Rancid headlined a huge italian festival. It was on television, and there were cameras everywhere. Matt wore the wrong shoes with no soles on them, and he jumped and went whack, right on his back. The band didn't stop playing. They looked over and waved, and he was alright. But the cameras were all over him, zooming in, and it went all across Italy: Matt falling on his ass. (thanx to Mark)
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• 10. Matt said the album (life won't wait) only cost about $100 to make. He said all the recording costs went to paying Lars' little outbursts. They got kicked out of every studio because Lars kept smashing decks. Then the cops would show up and they'd get kicked out of the city. (thanx to Mark)
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• 11. rancid are 15 year old puerto rican sleazey night club dancers who floated to america on a piece of drift-wood (thanx to Alan :))