→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confi→→How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut The Celebrities Who Were Spies https://youtu.be/p7sKvlgbN1w?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Steve Jobs' Illegal First Business https://youtu.be/frol3SRqMTc?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: Jason Statham, the stunningly handsome man you occasionally see glistening on the cover of Men’s Health or kicking The Rock in the face in the latest Fast and the Furious movie, is primarily known for two kinds of roles- action movies, where he uses his formidable athleticism to beat up dozens of nameless thugs, and comedy films, where he usually plays a wise-cracking hustler. These are two roles he’s basically trained for his entire life, seeing as before he was an actor, he was, amongst other things, a street hustler and a professional diver who came just one position away from making the Olympics not once, but three consecutive Olympiads. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/05/jason-stathams-surprisingly-diverse-pre-hollywood-career/ Sources: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/to-baldly-go-where-no-manes-grown-before-1584820.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/film/all-action/2008/07/12/1215658193266.html?page=2 http://www.sportskeeda.com/athletics/jason-statham-international-diver-before-hollywood-star http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/interviews/a35122/jason-statham-cover-story-0615/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/28292980 http://jstatham.com/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WqP2eH-eB30C&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq=jason+statham+french+connection+ad&source=bl&ots=MaOZsjZ3HJ&sig=ZEdHCnL45fwKnzHWT8IKZ18Ql7Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEw