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TIL: That at the audition for the role of Mork in Mork & Mindy, Robin Williams was asked to take a seat and promptly sat on his head. Producer Gary Marshall cast him on the spot, later commenting that Williams was the only alien who auditioned.

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9wrrM TIL that in 2007 it was announced that U2 were involved in a project to build the U2 Tower, an apartment building in Dublin which also housed their recording studio. It would have been the tallest building in Ireland if completed but it was cancelled due to the 2008 economic downturn in the country.
gOkD TIL the first issue of Life magazine, entitled “Life Begins,” featured the birth of a baby named George Story. A month after LIFE announced its closure in 2000, Story died of heart failure, and Life’s final issue was entitled “A Life Ends.”
4k6jw TIL that in 1952, in order to see who would win the main role in a film called “Viva Zapata!”, actors Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn held a “pissing contest” in which the person who’d piss the furthest over the Rio Grande in Mexico would win the role. Marlon Brando was the champion.
ngQP TIL a professor proposed a policy of automatic retaliation that would serve to end rocket attacks on Israel. If a rocket was fired at Israel an automated missile would fire at a arbitrary spot in Gaza without human input, meaning if militants rocketed Israel they would also be rocketing themselves.
rLL4 TIL Michael Caine once held Sean Connery’s coat while the James Bond star single-handedly beat up four men in a nightclub.