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TIL applications for Mars One, the first manned mission to Mars will be accepted soon.

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7DB7 TIL a stroke suffering cat owner tried to teach his cat to press a 911 speed dial. Unsure whether the training stuck, the owner later fell from his wheel chair during a seizure. Police received a silent 911 call from the house and arrived to find the man incapacitated and the cat by the phone.
W7L7L TIL that the Bee Gees didn't write didn't write their music for Saturday Night Fever until post production. All the dance scenes that was done to their music was filmed using other songs.
nLed TIL Walt Disney hired 11 dwarfs for the premiere of Pinocchio to dress up like the puppet and greet children. Left with a day’s worth of food and wine, by mid-afternoon there were 11 naked dwarfs running around screaming obscenities at the crowd.
GXKE TIL oranges grown in tropical countries remain green even when ripe. To attain the orange color, they are either exposed to ethylene gas or dyed.
5YxJp TIL there have been more Catholic prime ministers of Japan than there have been Catholic prime ministers of Britain and Catholic presidents of the US combined