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TIL that MARIO wears a Hat because Programmers at that time found it difficult to create hair movement when the character jumped.

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jNwLn TIL The rescue of Denmark’s Jews during WWII was so successful, that 99% of the country’s Jewish population escaped. From October 1943, 7,220 of Denmark's 7,800 Jews were ferried to Sweden. At the request of the group, Yad Vashem honoured the Danish Resistance as a whole, than as individuals.
wdEo TIL That the more successful Roman gladiators endorsed products before commencing a fight and would have their names on the Roman equivalent of billboards.
4Ea TIL NASA will pay you $15000 to sit in bed for 60 days (87 days of testing total), while they measure the effects of zero gravity on your body.
yKpX TIL Every day 22 veterans on average commit suicide in the USA. That’s one suicide every 65 minutes.
0mQj TIL that a clinical study on alcoholism that tracked 1,824 participants for 20 years revealed that heavy drinkers outlived non-drinkers, even when accounting for many other variables