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TIL Steven Seagal released a dancehall song in 2004 called “Strut” in which he sings in a fake Jamaican accent and his first line is “me want the poonani.”

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mxNQO TIL that Pope John Paul II was shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt. The Pope survived and forgave the attacker, and even requested that the man be pardoned from life imprisonment. After the Pope died, his would-be assassin visited his tomb and laid flowers.
Jnwv TIL that 40 Year Old Virgin star Shelley Malil is serving a life sentence in prison for attempted murder
WkeJL TIL: China accounts for 40% of the tobacco consumption worldwide. 52 percent of adult Chinese men smoke.
76ab TIL When Michael Jackson was 21, he wrote a personal note promising to re-invent himself as the greatest entertainer of all time.
R7WG4 TIL the author Otto Wilhelm Rahn resigned from the SS & on 3/13/1939 was found frozen to death on a mountainside near Söll, in Austria (then part of Greater Germany). His death was ruled to be a suicide by the Nazis.