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

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OGOVY TiL Hull woos Londoners with 5,000 pots of chip spice
XrKQ TIL: Until 2009, India accounted for more than half of the world’s polio cases. It has now had three consecutive years without new polio cases.
p86M4 TIL that bad driving led Australian Police to a $140 million drug bust in Sydney. A man had driven his drug-filled van into an empty patrol car, then sped off. Police caught him an hour later. They found 270 kg of meth in the van.
VM4gG TIL that only two fragments of text predating Christianization in (Old High) German still survive, which refer to pagan beliefs. They are magic spells dating from the 9th century.
4k10N TIL General James Wilkinson was a high-ranking U.S. officer during the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Years after his death, historians in Spain uncovered proof he had been a Spanish spy—prompting Teddy Roosevelt to say, “In all our history, there is no more despicable character.”