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TIL Nicolas Cage won China’s ‘Best Global Actor’ award in 2013

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dDY5j TIL that Team USA Men's Beach Volleyball player Chase Budinger once dunked over P Diddy in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest
E1GM0 TIL Hemp Flower is trending big in Italy, and it has led to Substantially Reductions in Pharmaceutical Use
AYEa TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger went AWOL from the army to compete in a bodybuilding competition. When he was caught sneaking back on post his superiors found out he won and he was given 3 hours a day to work out for the rest of his time in service.
8exQ8 TIL about Turbonique, a company that marketed rocket and turbine engines to drag racers. In 1965, a VW Beetle fitted with a Turbonique TB-28 Drag Axle ran a 9.2 second quarter mile before going airborne at 183 mph.
9XWm TIL of the WASP Injector Knife, which once inside the victim, expels 850 psi of CO2 creating a basketball sized air pocket, freezing surrounding internals