› added 9 years ago

200

TIL that a man waited 20 hours to buy pot legally in WA. The news filmed the sale and the man lost his job.

Read more cnbc.com

via reddit.com

80rG TIL Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician in Israel and anti WMD activist leaked a photograph to the British press of evidence Israel had nuclear weapons. He was later tracked by Mossad, drugged, bound, thrown in a bag and renditioned to Israel for trial.
ANwB4 TIL the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown was heavily damaged after destroying a Japanese aircraft carrier during the first carrier battle in history. After 48 hours of emergency repairs, it ended up helping destroy two more carriers before being sunk and inadvertently saved the other US carriers.
aO5J TIL KitKats are considered to be good luck in Japan because the Japanese reading of “KitKat”, “kitto katto”, sounds similar to “kitto katsu”, a phrase which translates to “surely win”
gM459 TIL: Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. He backed out at the end of the process because he "didn't feel ready to take that dive, at that point."
gpWX TIL that 17-year-old California teen, Max Wade, stole Guy Fieri’s $200,000 Lamborghini from a San Francisco car dealership by rappelling down from the roof and driving out the front door.